Who we are

Gianluca Verin and Karim El Malki, both Ericsson veterans, founded Athonet on a shared vision: a world of democratized and limitless wireless connectivity.

Deployed the world’s first fully virtualized mobile core for a campus network at Area Science Park and mobile operator Wind.

Deployed the world’s first LTE Smartgrid to provide direct low- latency connectivity between electrical secondary substations.

Deployed the first world’s LTE network for Public Safety in a real emergency: the earthquake in Northern Italy.

Deployed LTE Wireless ISPs, regional networks in the USA and one of the world’s first Industrial IOT Private LTE solutions in a major power plant in Italy with mobile operator H3G.

Deployed the world’s first commercial LTE MVNO for Public Safety, for the government of Finland and one of the world’s largest IOT MVNOs for Enel, leading multinational utility, connecting smartmeters and EV charging stations.

Deployed an LTE network in the deepest mine in the Americas and we win our first Global Mobile Award at the Mobile World Congress.

Launched an LTE/5G mobile core which clicks-to-deploy on the Cloud (AWS) and provides a fully virtualized edge core solution. Won the ICCA “Outstanding Single-Site Critical Communications Installation” award.

Our innovative Hybrid Cloud Mobile Core solution won 4 simultaneous Global Mobile Awards at Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, and we were selected to supply LTE tactical networks solutions to the French Ministry of the Interior.

Launched free- to-access Open 5G Core running on the AWS Cloud.

Athonet’s 5G-SA core is deployed by Cambridge 5G, High Speed 1, AWS, Telenor. Professional-Grade LTE core continues its advance with over 30 deployments in the mining industry, Paris Airport, Telia, Edzcom and Hamina-Kotka port and many more.

Athonet returns to MWC 2022 in Barcelona showcasing 5G-SA networks with Vodafone and AWS for advanced AR and robotics Applications.