Editorial policy
How we find, check, label, and correct the information on this site, and how we keep our own companies' interests separate from it.
Where facts come from
Every fact on an equipment, vendor, or deployment page comes from a named source. Most sources are a maker’s product page or datasheet, a vendor’s case study, a store listing, or the organization that runs the network.
Each page lists its sources in one place: the Sources section at the bottom. Open “Source details” to see, for each fact, who published it, what kind of source it is, where in the source it appears, and when we checked it.
The site does not cover the whole market. We add a product, vendor, or deployment when we find sources we can check.
Who said it
We label every source by who published it, because that tells you how much weight to give it.
- Manufacturer information: what a maker says about its own product.
- Vendor case study: a vendor describing a customer’s project. Results are the vendor’s account, not independent measurements.
- Customer report: the organization that runs the network, describing it.
- Retailer listing: a store’s product listing.
- Official documentation: documents from a government agency or a standards body.
- Private5G.com classification: a label we applied from the source, such as the equipment category.
We don’t test equipment ourselves. No fact on this site comes from independent testing, and we never present a maker’s or vendor’s claim as a test result.
When a detail isn’t known
If no source states a detail, the page says “Not stated by sources”. We don’t guess. A missing detail does not mean no, zero, or not compatible: it means the sources don’t say.
Deployment status
Each deployment shows the status its sources give: Reported in operation, Announced, Pilot or trial, Ended, or Status not stated. We never move a status further than the sources go. For example, an announced network stays “Announced” until a source says it is in use.
Keeping pages current
Each equipment, vendor, and deployment page shows the date we last reviewed it. We take a product page off the site if we haven’t checked its sources in 90 days, and put it back after we check them again. A deployment reported in operation comes off the site 180 days after its last check, because a network’s status can change and we don’t want to show an old one as current.
Our own companies
Private5G.com is operated by the team behind Waveform and RSRF. Waveform sells equipment, preconfigured networks, and supported deployments. RSRF delivers turnkey installed projects. These rules keep that interest separate from the research:
- We label our companies wherever they appear: “Affiliated company” on their vendor pages, and “Waveform product” or “Sold by Waveform” on products.
- Waveform and RSRF records must meet the same source rules as every other record.
- Vendors are listed A to Z, not ranked.
- When the site points you to one of our companies, it goes by the kind of help you ask for: equipment, a preconfigured network, or a fully installed project. It never goes by the size of your organization or your budget.
- Links to Waveform and RSRF support those businesses. Other suppliers for every kind of project are in the vendor landscape.
Product photos
Product photos come from the maker’s own marketing or from Waveform’s store listings. Each one is credited on its product page. A maker can ask us to remove or replace a photo of its product at any time.
Corrections
If something is wrong or missing, tell us on the corrections and contributions page. We check every correction against its sources before we change a page, and nothing anyone sends is published automatically. Staff at companies we list can confirm a work email so their corrections are reviewed first.
What we don’t do
We don’t invent reviewers, quotes, or customer results. We don’t copy other sites’ articles, hide business relationships, buy links, or publish pages only to rank in search results.