- Berg Insight said that 6,500 private networks were deployed by the end of 2025
- Berg Insight firm values the market at approximately $2.4 billion
- Berg Insight forecasts that the market will reach $12 billion in 2030
Despite the market confusion around leading vendor Nokia’s planned shift in tactics on private networking announced late last year, the overall market is growing steadily, as shown by the latest report by IoT analyst firm Berg Insight.
According to this report and other analysts notes, the private network market is going mainstream. In fact, Berg said that the market is worth an estimated $2.4 billion in 2025, with 6,500 private LTE/5G networks deployed across the world at the end of the year. Over a thousand of those private networks are from Nokia, SNS Telecom & IT reported recently.
Berg said that the total market value for private network systems is forecasted to reach $12 billion in 2030.
SNS recently predicted that the market spending will exceed $7.2 billion by the end of 2028, and could account for as much as a fourth of all mobile network infrastructure spending by 2030.
Private transformation
“The private cellular network market is undergoing a transformation, driven by the increasing availability of dedicated spectrum, evolving device ecosystem and a growing number of latency-sensitive enterprise use cases," said Melvin Sorum, IoT analyst at Berg Insight in a statement. “While the market historically has been mainly supply-driven, it is today increasingly driven by organic demand from end users.”
Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia — the major macro RAN vendors, play a major role in the PNW space, Berg reported. It ranks Nokia as the largest private LTE/5G network system vendor with about 960 customers and over 2,000 private network deployments at the end of 2025.
A number of small cell and other providers offer competitive LTE/5G radio products and in some cases complete private network offerings, including Airspan Networks, Askey, AW2S, Baicells, Benetel, BLiNQ Networks, Cablefree, Celona, Firecell, GXC, JMA Wireless, Mavenir, Microamp, Samsung Networks, Sercomm, Star Solutions, Telrad, XCOM RAN and ZTE. Important specialised core network software (EPC/5GC) vendors include AttoCore, Blue Arcus, Cisco, Cumucore, Druid Software, Expeto, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Highway 9, IPLOOK, Onomondo, Obvios and Pente Networks.
In total, RAN and EPC/5GC offerings for private networks are available from close to 60 vendors.
Read all about the private 5G network market here.