28 February 2012, Mobile World Congress, Barcelona — AT&T has announced a significant addition to its global portfolio – a worldwide platform system featuring a single SIM offering expansive global coverage.
The SIM, along with the service management platform, AT&T Control Center powered by Jasper Wireless, arms connected and M2M device manufacturers with the ability to manage global wireless device deployment and operations across markets with advanced diagnostic tools and smart process automation.
Today, device manufacturers across the globe are wirelessly enabling thousands of new connected and M2M device applications in myriad of industries, but their basic, global deployment needs are the same: they require broad, readily accessible wireless and mobile broadband coverage in each target market, and a wireless single SIM solution suitable for scalable deployment across the world markets.
AT&T*, a leading global connected devices carrier, has enabled several of the world’s largest device deployments by remaining singularly focused on expanding global wireless coverage, adding global-ready platforms and recruiting to acquire the right mix of global expertise to support multi-national enterprise customers and consumer electronics manufacturers.
“Lessons learned by market leading manufacturers suggest that a single carrier supplier with a single SIM solution is often preferred over working directly with multiple regional wireless carriers,” said Glenn Lurie, president of emerging segments, AT&T. “Managing multiple relationships becomes increasingly complex and costly with each additional target market. With our single SIM dedicated exclusively to the Global M2M Offering, the benefit comes from a single solution, backed by an industry leading well managed platform. AT&T has made and will continue to make significant strategic investments with the world’s finest platform providers.”
“We’ve remained strategically important to our enterprise M2M customers due to our focus on providing the right combination of product, sales expertise, professional services, hardware and applications to support a global M2M deployment,” said Chris Hill, Vice President, Advanced Mobility Solutions, AT&T Business and Home Solutions. “We are committed to building the systems and business relationships required to support our customer global needs, whether that business construct is roaming, or some other business relationship.”
AT&T provides connected and M2M device support and professional services to many of the world’s largest device manufacturers and global exporters of wireless-enabled equipment. The company also certifies and supports nearly 1,200 varieties of connected devices, with labs dedicated to bringing new devices to market, global roaming and integrated SIM provisioning, billing and reporting tools.
In 2011 Current Analysis honoured AT&T with the highest possible competitive ranking in M2M services[.
Principal Analyst Kathryn Weldon wrote, “AT&T continues to add value to its M2M solutions…AT&T has made a number of recent alliance announcements with application platform providers, which adds to its arsenal of solutions.”
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
