Nokia, NTT DATA, Telefónica Tech Ranked #1 Champion Private Network Vendors by Kaleido Intelligence

Additionally, 20 vendors were recognised as Kaleido High Flyers across the 4 categories. This recognition highlights companies with a strong and comprehensive industry offering. They consistently outperform expectations in technical leadership and innovation, making them highly capable and strategically valuable partners.

Prakash Sadagopan, Head of Mission Critical Enterprise, Global Sales and Customer Organization, Nokia:  “Nokia is proud to retain its #1 Champion vendor position for the third consecutive year in Kaleido Intelligence’s 2025 Private Network Vendor Hub report. This recognition, based on Kaleido’s extensive analysis of over 70 vendors, reaffirms Nokia’s leadership in mission-critical private wireless. Leveraging our deep telecommunications industry expertise, we designed the world’s leading fit-for-mission critical enterprise networks. Our solutions deliver secure, trusted, and deterministic autonomous networks and innovate to help accelerate digitalization in industrial segments, utilities, railways, and public sectors.”

Parm Sandhu, Vice President, Enterprise 5G Products and Services at NTT DATA said: “NTT DATA’s continued recognition as a Kaleido Intelligence Champion reflects our ability to help enterprises move beyond experimentation to real-world impact. Our Private 5G network and Edge AI compute platform, backed by strong global delivery and managed services, enable customers to scale secure, high-performance networks that support advanced AI-driven use cases to next-generation industrial automation.”

Francisco Javier Martínez Borreguero, Industry 4.0 Head, Telefónica Tech: “Being recognised by Kaleido as the #1 Champion Vendor in Private Network Management validates the strength of our end-to-end model and our commitment to delivering robust, flexible and future-ready industrial connectivity. Our extensive experience deploying private networks across Europe and Latin America shows how these solutions are enabling the transformation of industries such as mining, manufacturing and ports. This recognition reinforces Telefónica Tech’s dedication to providing scalable, interoperable solutions that accelerate our customers’ industrial digitalisation.”

“The Private Network ecosystem has undergone several shifts in the past year, but the leading players have continued to innovate in the space,” remarked research author James Moar. “We’re seeing more AI integrations and flexible tools deployed to help with network management, as well as several new hardware features that will ultimately move the space towards a more plug-and-play environment. Innovation is not only confined to the leading players, however, and some highly capable challengers are emerging who offer exciting new capabilities to the market.”

Nokia and NTT DATA Maintain Product Excellence

Nokia has been rated the #1 vendor for private network software and hardware for the third year running, as well as retaining Champion status for its end-to-end managed service offering and strong industrial edge computing and network monitoring solutions. NTT also remains a Champion for Private Network Management, with a solid integrated offering, large ecosystem of software partners and connectivity management tools, both as an integrator and through its subsidiary Transatel.

The leadership scoring analysis for 49 different private network vendors is summarised in the Private Networks Vendor Hub 2025-26 report, along with an assessment of company strengths and opportunities. Kaleido’s Vendor Hub assessment entails categorising vendors based on their product excellence, recognising each company’s distinct market positioning, problem-solving skills, innovative prowess, and their ability to align with current market needs and future demands.

Kaleido Intelligence, a Seranta Holdings company, is a telecom research and consulting firm focused on delivering clear, data-driven insight across the mobile connectivity ecosystem. The team brings specialist expertise in roaming, messaging, eSIM, IoT and satellite connectivity, helping the industry understand market shifts and make informed decisions. Following its 2025 merger with Mobilesquared, Kaleido broadened its research depth and reinforced its role as a leading authority in telecom analysis.

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