A UK-linked wireless networks specialist, now part of BAI Communications, that designs and runs indoor and private 4G and 5G mobile coverage for venues, stadiums, airports and businesses.
Vilicom designs, installs and manages wireless networks that bring strong mobile signal indoors and to private sites. Buildings often block mobile signals, so Vilicom builds systems inside venues, and it runs private networks for places such as an offshore wind farm. Its customers include healthcare, real estate, retail, hospitality, energy and mobile network operators. Named projects include Dublin Airport Terminal 2, Premiership football stadiums, Croke Park, a pharmaceutical plant and the Moray East offshore windfarm in Scotland. The company says it has deployed over 1,500 solutions in more than 20 countries.
Vilicom's chief executive, Sean Keating, has described the company as an industry leader in cellular innovation for over two decades. BAI Communications bought Vilicom in December 2021, calling it a major expansion of BAI's UK and European business, and BAI's UK chief executive, Billy D'Arcy, said "At BAI we are working to connect the unconnected." We did not find a founding date or a mission statement from Vilicom itself.
On the UK side, Vilicom worked with Virgin Media O2 on a commercial indoor 4G site built on Open RAN technology, which means using open standards so equipment from different suppliers can work together. The site followed the UK's neutral host specifications, so one system can serve customers of several mobile operators. Its platform runs on Mavenir cloud RAN software with much of the equipment in Vilicom's own data centre. A Mavenir release calls it "UK-Based Vilicom". We did not find a specific UK office address, so the exact location of its UK staff is unconfirmed.
We did not find culture material or staff stories. What the public record shows is a company that has taken on difficult sites, from stadiums and airports to an offshore wind farm, and that has moved to cloud-based networks. The Virgin Media O2 project was tested for months for function, compatibility and cybersecurity before launching, which points to a careful engineering approach. This is our reading of the public record, not a company claim.
People at a wireless network company include radio planners who work out where signals will reach, design engineers, installation and commissioning engineers who set up equipment on site, and network engineers who run the systems from a control centre. There are also project managers, health and safety staff, sales teams who work with property owners and mobile operators, and finance staff. Physics, electronics and telecoms engineering lead naturally here, and hands-on field roles suit people who like being on site.
Website: www.vilicom.com
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