Accelerate M2M and the IoT with on-demand connectivity

Gemalto’s Benoit Jouffrey says these are exciting times in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) marketplace because of a variety of innovations including selfdriving vehicles, car-sharing applications, smart office solutions and more. In fact, the sector has witnessed enormous growth in M2M connections of nearly 40% year over year according to the latest report from the GSMA. However, although

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HCE will support SE market growth, with faster mass NFC roll-out and a new authentication role for MNOs

Following the recent publication of the Consult Hyperion/GSMA discussion paper ‘HCE and SIM Secure Element: It’s Not Black and White’, SIMalliance has highlighted that future growth of the NFC ecosystem and NFC-based applications, resulting from host card emulation (HCE), is likely to expedite SIM-based NFC payment deployments and create opportunities for mobile network operators (MNOs)

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GlobalPlatform Presents the TSM of Today and Tomorrow

Event date: June 18, 2013 Madrid, Spain The seminar, entitled ‘GlobalPlatform Presents the TSM of Today and Tomorrow’, will be of interest to TSMs, mobile network operators (MNOs), banks, transit authorities and technology providers who are engaged in the deployment of mobile services.

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Experience – What is it worth?

(BLOG:) M2M Connected Services. Experience – what is it worth? And when I say “experience”, writes Gwenn Larsson of Telenor Connexion, I don’t mean how many millions of connections a company can claim to have in the market? I mean, real experience, with business- and life-critical applications.

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Cloud may boost operator M2M profits five-fold as market hits $373bn in 2020, say Jasper and Machina

Mountain View, USA & London, UK. September 11, 2012 – Research funded by Jasper Wireless, the connected devices platform provider for M2M and consumer electronics, and conducted by Machina Research, shows that mobile network operators (MNOs) that implemented a cloud-based M2M services management platform could see a 500% profit increase by 2020.

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Vodafone stays top of Machina Research’s M2M Leaderboard, AT&T misses second place through US technology choices

Machina Research updates its M2M Leaderboard, ranking MNOs on expected success between now and 2020. Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and AT&T remain top, with Telefónica moving up one place to 4th.

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NEC and Wyless form strategic M2M service partnership

Tokyo, Japan. April 18, 2012 — NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and Wyless Inc., a leading provider of global machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless connectivity solutions and managed services, announced today that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) forming a strategic alliance to explore end-to-end M2M service opportunities.

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What’s the real value of an SLA?

OK, so I know the definition of SLA is Service Level Agreement – and I know that the purpose is to encourage suppliers to live up to the performance requirements of their customers, says Telenor Connexion’s Gwenn Larsson (pictured). And in some cases with business- and life-critical M2M solutions it’s really important that the service

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Machina Research leaderboard ranks mobile network operators on expected M2M success up to 2020

Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and AT&T top Machina Research’s inaugural M2M Leaderboard and a clear top tier of M2M operators is starting to emerge

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Offering a premium M2M service requires close cooperation between MNOs and their customers

Creating a premium service for M2M or Telematics solutions is a team effort between M2M solution providers and their customers. Based on a set of guidelines

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