Deployments of private enterprise wireless networks will surge over the next few years amid rising hype that has been stimulated by the course of the ongoing pandemic. However, the curve is steeper than looked likely, such that the rate of growth will peak within around five years before subsiding as saturation approaches. These are some of the findings of Rethink Technology Research’s latest report from its RAN Service, entitled ‘Private Networks Driving Opportunities in 5G and WiFi’. Taking 5G alone, annual network equipment sales are on course to peak in 2027 at $19.3bn in, before subsiding. There will be a similar, if smaller, boom in deployment of enterprise WiFi networks around the latest 6E standard, which will offer greater capacity…