Cellhire enhances IoT offering with OV global roaming solution

Cellhire has announced a partnership with OV, a provider of IoT connectivity. The partnership eliminates excessive charges for roaming IoT devices by giving Cellhire’s clients and channel partners access to more than 600 direct roaming agreements globally, in a permanent roaming solution.

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Eseye, Orange team up to enhance global IoT connectivity offering

Eseye announced that it has entered into an agreement with Orange Wholesale France to enhance its global IoT connectivity solution. This agreement offers with additional localisation capabilities which will enable enterprises to avoid permanent roaming challenges. 

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Juniper Research claims operators can achieve ‘competitive advantage’ in $30bn roaming market

Juniper Research, analysts covering the global roaming market, has released a roaming market intelligence research subscription, providing competitive advantage for subscribers.

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Orange unveils results of experimental end-to-end 5G Stand Alone (SA) network, Pikeo

Orange has announced that it has reached a major milestone on its journey towards software and data based, fully-automated networks, with the results of its end-to-end cloud-native 5G SA experimental multi-cloud network, named Pikeo. This experimental network, the first of its kind in Europe at the time of its launch in June 2021, represents a

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Copenhagen calling: DTW shows service providers how to optimise AIOps and scale up next gen data revenues

It used to be said that human resources are an organisation’s greatest asset. Today, some argue that data is number one. It doesn’t matter which camp you fall into, says Jeremy Cowan, it’s time to blend the two at TM Forum’s 3-day event Digital Transformation World, held in Copenhagen, Denmark from September 20-22. 

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Europe’s IoT industry doubles down to make the mass market a reality

Europe is an early adopter of IoT and sustained, planned investment by enterprises will ensure it keeps its position as the third largest IoT market behind China and North America as the decade continues, in spite of the challenges of war and disease, writes George Malim. 

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Berg Insight says global cellular IoT connections grew 22% to reach 2.1bn in 2021

Gothenburg, Sweden. 15 July 2022 – A new report from the IoT market research firm Berg Insight says that the global number of cellular IoT subscribers increased by 22% during 2021 to reach 2.1 billion. The major regional markets China, Western Europe and North America grew similarly during the year as the world recovered from

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Capgemini and Orange announce that Bleu will start engaging with customers by the end of 2022

Paris, France. 22 June 2022 – Capgemini and Orange confirmed that Bleu, their future joint venture that will provide trusted cloud (“Cloud de Confiance”) services to address the needs of specific French organisations, is expected to start supporting clients in preparing for their migration by the end of 2022 (date being subject to regulatory approvals).

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AST SpaceMobile announces summer launch date of BlueWalker 3 for direct-to-cell phone connectivity testing

Midland, Texas. 13 June 2022 – AST SpaceMobile, Inc., the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard mobile phones, has confirmed it plans to launch its BlueWalker 3 test satellite from Cape Canaveral, FL during the week of August 15, 2022.

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Winners of the MEFFYS 2022 announced live at MWC Barcelona

The winners of the 2022 MEFFYS Awards have been announced. The MEFFYS, hosted by the UK-based Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF), celebrate innovation, creativity and ingenuity in the Mobile Ecosystem. This is when the industry has the opportunity to recognise, applaud and showcase those individuals and companies that have made a significant difference in 2021 across

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NGMN identifies key energy saving solutions for mobile networks

Frankfurt, Germany. 9 November 2021 – The Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance released “Green Future Networks: Network Energy Efficiency”, a publication which focuses on best possible ways of reducing the energy consumption of mobile networks, a key concern of Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and an important step towards greener networks.

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Who is set to benefit from eSIM technology?

The SIM card is a technology that most of us are familiar with, present in mobile phones since the early nineties. A SIM card is a piece of hardware which contains data that authenticates us with our mobile operator, enabling us to connect to a network and receive a mobile connection.

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IoT and embedded analytics combine to show effects of climate change in our gardens

As Earth’s climate continues to warm, a new pattern of more frequent and intense weather events continues to unfold around the world. This has led to longer periods of heat and drought, which in turn has an impact on the environment which is being felt everywhere, from rainforests to farmer’s fields and even our own

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Orange lands a new transatlantic submarine cable on France’s Gironde coast

This weekend Orange landed the “AMITIE” submarine telecommunications cable on a beach in the commune of Le Porge, near Bordeaux (Gironde).

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New branches for the 2Africa subsea cable system

The 2Africa consortium, comprised of China Mobile International, Facebook, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, stc, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC, announced the addition of four new branches to the 2Africa cable.

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Berg Insight says global cellular IoT connections grew 12% to reach 1.7 billion in 2020

A new report from the IoT market research firm Berg Insight says that the global number of cellular IoT subscribers increased by 12% during 2020 to reach 1.74 billion.

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