With many operators facing flat revenue from consumers in the 5G era, they have been looking to the enterprise sector for growth and on the surface this strategy looks to be working as private mobile networks are booming, if still at an early stage. This has been confirmed by the cellular infrastructure vendors, especially Huawei, with its recent assertion that there are now around 10,000 5G B2B projects globally, a substantial proportion of which it is involved with, including pilots, trials and early deployments. Ericsson has somewhat more modestly claimed involvement in “hundreds” of private wireless customer engagements, including pilots. Nokia claims to have 380 private wireless customers with this segment just now gaining revenues again, after declining year-on-year in…