SoftBank aims to secure 2 million IoT connections with 1NCE Flat Rate

SoftBank Corp. has announced that it will launch a full-fledged expansion of its global Internet of Things (IoT) business in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, commencing this month. This sales expansion spans 19 countries and regions, including Japan. SoftBank’s primary emphasis in this endeavor will be directed towards marketing IoT services, with a key focus on

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How iSIM is helping businesses to out-think the future

How iSIM is helping businesses to out-think the future SIM innovations are seeing the traditional telecoms model of providing plastic cards replaced by software or device-based alternatives in the form of embedded and integrated SIMs (eSIM and iSIM). This move is about far more than saving money on logistics and SIM trays in devices because it

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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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How to Achieve Agile, Global Connectivity for your IoT Services

On-demand To grow your IoT services, you need to know that you can confidently deploy devices, anywhere in the world. You need a global connectivity partner that reduces the complexity of IoT, offers rapid activation and on-boarding, while managing costs. Understand how to achieve flexible, global connectivity, with complete visibility of your devices.

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Flashnet to light up smart cities market with 1NCE connectivity

1NCE, the provider of a revolutionary connectivity offering that enables IoT applications and services to access connectivity on a buy once, flat rate fee for ten years, has announced that smart streetlighting innovator Flashnet is to introduce 1NCE’s 2G, 3G and narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) offering in its product portfolio as a new connectivity option.

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Is the IoT bubble about to burst?

Gartner predicts that the typical family home will contain as many as 500 networked devices by 2020. Similarly, Ericsson forecasts 50 billion connected “things” by the same date.

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Webinar: Monetising Your IoT Offering

Event date: June 22, 2016 Webinar online This webinar analyses the adoption and impact of the Industrial IoT. It also tackles the challenges companies are facing when shifting from a physical to a digital business model and implementing revenue models that are based on usage, time or value.

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Accelerite launches Aepona IoT – cloud neutral IoT development platform at Mobile World Congress

Accelerite, a provider of infrastructure software for enterprises and telecom carriers, is launching the next generation of Aepona IoT with its new capability that allows application developers to build IoT applications and deploy them in any IoT cloud platform, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT, IBM Bluemix or Microsoft Azure.

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Gemalto and Bridge Alliance demo GSMA standards-based solution for multi-country IoT device deployment

Security providers Gemalto and Bridge Alliance are demonstrating a solution for multi-country deployment of IoT devices at Mobile World C ongress , using Gemalto’s LinqUs On-Demand Connectivity (ODC) subscription management solution.

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The emergence of IoT specific SIMs and networks

Webinar online Learn why customers are moving away from traditional roaming SIMs and networks in favour of services designed specifically for the needs of connected products and services.

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Webinar: The emergence of IoT specific SIMs and networks

Event date: March 1, 2016 webinar online Learn why customers are moving away from traditional roaming SIMs and networks in favour of services designed specifically for the needs of connected products and services.

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Service-centric network optimisation

Economies of scale and greater technology choices present Internet of Things (IoT) service providers with more options to ensure quality of service and optimise their IoT networks, writes George Malim.

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