IoT services: How telcos can lead the future

Essential telcos continue to explore new business-building initiatives as a way of tackling market commoditisation. Despite this, over the last seven years there has only been a 28% growth in total shareholder returns, says Mark Wass, strategic sales director, UK and North EMEA at CloudBlue.

Read more

Smart metering: Go digital to enable enhanced oversight

Smart metering Internet of Things (IoT) applications have the potential to solve the efficiency, cost and time challenges of manual metre monitoring and reading. As utilities embrace the full potential of digitalisation and strive to become more sustainable, they will need secure, reliable, and uninterrupted IoT connectivity in addition to a seamless, automated way to

Read more

BICS adds private mobile networks connectivity to global SIM for Things solution

International communications enabler BICS has added private mobile networks connectivity to its SIM for Things solution. This latest enhancement to BICS’ solution builds on the recent addition of borderless 5G capabilities, announced in March.

Read more

Nokia launches innovative cloud charging solution on AWS for CSPs

Nokia has announced the deployment of its cloud-native convergent charging solution on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate communications service providers (CSPs) migration of business-critical, high frequency charging applications to the public cloud, and to deliver the benefits of the cloud for 5G.

Read more

Nokia speeds industry 4.0 transformation with added digital automation cloud functionality

Nokia reports new added value features and digital automation enablers for its Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) private wireless networking platform.

Read more

GSMA-compliant AnyNet+ eUICC SIM enables dynamic switching between network providers

A fully GSMA-compliant eUICC SIM with in-built multi-IMSI switching technology has been unveiled today by global Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity specialist, Eseye. The new AnyNet+ SIM solution is designed to simplify and improve global commercial IoT connectivity.

Read more

China holds narrow lead in global race to 5G

China holds a narrow lead in overall 5G readiness ahead of South Korea and the United States, according to a new report from Analysys Mason. Underscoring the importance of America maintaining its global wireless leadership, additional research by Recon Analytics found that U.S.

Read more

How SMEs can use IoT for business growth

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the billions of ‘smart’ devices – anything from cars, to home appliances – that can connect to a network to collect and share data. In a time when Industry 4.0, or the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), is thriving, it’s no wonder we are finding ourselves more and more

Read more

Cellular IoT connectivity is not an internet experience, it’s a secure, dedicated connection

Analysys Mason’s research director Tom Rebbeck caught up with Arkessa chief executive, Andrew Orrock, to talk about how the barriers to IoT adoption are gradually falling, and how mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) can succeed in a market with numerous large global mobile network operators (MNOs)

Read more

Analyst Report IoT Connectivity

This year will be crucial for commercial deployments of IoT connectivity technologies Possibly the most common question about LPWA network technologies is which will win, writes Tom Rebbeck, the research director for enterprise and IoT at Analysys Mason.There remains no clear answer, based on what we saw in 2017. LoRa, LTE-M, NB-IoT and Sigfox all

Read more

Analyst Report Transportation

Transport and logistics move beyond vehicle tracking Transport and logistics were one of the earliest use cases for cellular connected devices and in many countries, remain the largest application areas. Suppliers initially targeted the market with IoT solutions focused on high-value assets, such as containers and the heavy good vehicles that carried them, where the

Read more

IoT Now Magazine February – March 2018

IoT Now Magazine (ISSN 2397-2793) explores the evolving opportunities and challenges facing CSPs across this sector. Our exclusive interviews pass on the key lessons learned by industry leaders in next gen Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) services. In February-March issue:Talking Heads: Wind River’s Jim Douglas explains why fluid computing, machine learning and changed mindsets will alter IoT forever

Read more

LPWA: Challenger operators could benefit from using a different technology to the market leader

Mobile operators have a significant opportunity to offer LPWA solutions, but competition will be intense. The leaders have decided which technology to support – for example, AT&T has opted for LTE-M, Orange uses LoRa and LTE-M and Vodafone has gone for NB-IoT.

Read more

Autonomous vehicles: Entertaining passengers may be the big opportunity for telecoms operators

While autonomous vehicles are gaining huge attention from all sectors, there is little assessment of what they mean for the telecoms sector. Based on a series of discussions with players in different roles in the value chain, and our own analysis, Analysys Mason believes that,

Read more

Operators should match their IoT security strategies with their ambitions in the IoT market

We forecast that 6.4 billion IoT connections worldwide will use fixed, mobile and low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks by 2025. As the IoT market grows, so does the security risk. The discussions on how to secure the IoT are increasingly the focus of attention.

Read more

LPWA addresses power consumption and cost of service barriers to IoT-enabling smart city devices

As organisations begin to roll-out low power radio (LoRa) and low power wide area (LPWA) connectivity, Michele Mackenzie, a principal analyst at Analysys Mason, interviews Sara Brown, the senior director of marketing at MultiTech, to learn more about how the technologies are being applied to smart city deployments.

Read more