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Huawei, a global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, and Vodafone Group announce the opening of an Open IoT Lab to work on the development of products and applications relating to Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) technology.

Following the global success of the annual Telit DevCon IoT Innovation, Telit ANZ is bringing its IoT leading expertise and knowledge to its Australian and New Zealand customers with the Telit IoT Innovation ANZ.

SAP SE announced the Internet of Things (IoT) foundation bundle for SAP HANA®, which features device connectivity management capability from Vodafone.

Mobile World Congress may be over, but the dust is still settling from the biggest mobile event of the year.

Huawei and Vodafone have agreed to establish NB-IoT (Narrowband Internet of Things) Open Lab.

The IoT Tech Expo, a series of Internet of Things (IoT) conferences and exhibitions, has announced its 2016 world series with events and dates confirmed in Berlin and San Francisco for 13-14 June and 20-21 October respectively.

Internationally renowned Smart IoT speakers share their views of the industry ahead of what is claimed to be the world’s largest IoT event.

Every January, Machina Research, the advisors on the Internet of Things, publishes its predictions for IoT in the coming year. This year promises to be an eventful one.

2015 saw the Internet of Things (IoT) as a catalyst for digital transformation. With more than a quarter of all companies worldwide using M2M technologies, as unveiled by Vodafone’s M2M Barometer, business models are being transformed and, as we embark on 2016, the future of M2M technologies looks even more promising.

The deployment of Machine to Machine (M2M) initiatives is generating new revenue opportunities for operators and communication service providers (CSPs). Pravin Mirchandani, CMO, OneAccess Networks, explained how innovative traffic management services, delivered via customer premises-based equipment, or CPE, can help them capitalise on these opportunities.

Ericsson, Vodafone and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. have jointly conducted what is said to be the world’s first live testing of advanced LTE Carrier Aggregation (CA) in licensed and unlicensed bands on a commercial mobile network. 

Top telecom industry members China Mobile, China Unicom, Ericsson, Etisalat, the GSMA, GTI, Huawei, Intel, LG Uplus, Nokia, Qualcomm Incorporated, Telecom Italia, Telefonica and Vodafone have held a preparatory event, chaired by Vodafone, to lay the foundations for a new industry forum aimed at accelerating the ecosystem around Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) technology.

The current state of 2G/GSM Networks As many of you are probably aware, cellular network operators around the world are planning to shut down their 2G networks to re-farm spectrum for more efficient 4G/LTE services.

Westminster City Council Uk and Pimlico Plumbers have successfully tested a new parking system which is believed to be the world’s first “One Click Parking” payment system for vehicles.

In mid-2014, when Analysys Mason reviewed more than 100 Internet of Things (IoT) investments and M&A deals, only 5 involved telecoms operators (and 4 of these were Vodafone investments).

London, UK. July 7, 2015 — Vodafone today published its third annual M2M Barometer Report, a global survey of the machine-to-machine (M2M) sector. The survey is based on interviews with 659 executives in 16 countries.