Telcos have failed to crack the large scale industrial 5G market because they lack the integration and support skills required to deliver complete packages for factories and warehouses. This is according to comments from Siemens at a recent industrial trade show in Germany. Siemens, as the world’s largest industrial automation vendor, has deployed private 5G in its own factories. The company went on to argue that large industrial companies were also proving reluctant to buy private 5G systems either from established macro cellular equipment companies such as Nokia and Ericsson, or those focused more on enterprise ICT, like Cisco, HPE and IBM. Such comments require some unpacking and calibrating, at a time when many larger enterprises are considering their connectivity…