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The Altice Group, a multinational cable, fiber, telecommunications, contents, and media company, and PTC announced the deployment of PTC’s ThingWorx® IoT platform across two Altice Group businesses:

Altice N.V. an international telecom and media group, its subsidiary SFR, the second-largest French global telco, and SIGFOX, a provider of global communication services for the Internet of Things (IoT), are to integrate SIGFOX connectivity in the group’s service offering.

While Vodafone Group’s adjusted operating profit for the year ended 31 March 2012 fell by 2.4% year-on-year to £11.5 billion (US$18.2 billion), due to the sale of its interest in SFR, the company has seen major growth in M2M connections, notably in the automotive and utilities markets.