Vodafone

Vodafone has been rated the best Machine to Machine (M2M) communications service provider in the world for the fourth year in a row according to independent research by Analysys Mason.

PRODUCT REVIEW: If you have high ‘net dependency proto-adults (let’s call them teenagers) at home you may recognise this conversation, says Jeremy Cowan. It starts with an expression close to bereavement.

AT&T, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone are going wheel to wheel in early laps of the race to connect cars old and new. As Jeremy Cowan reports, a series of recent IoT partnerships, a major investment and a company acquisition are bringing telco giants and automotive ‘privateers’ together to show some market pace-setters.

Cyan Technology’s executive chairman, John Cronin, has years of telecoms experience on his side. Now he’s applying lessons learned in other businesses to make strides in smart metering for emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil. But, he tells Jeremy Cowan, he just wishes he could give their chips away free!

Vodafone has launched two new M2M terminals, to make it easier for enterprises to benefit from the Internet of Things (IoT). USB connect is a dongle that’s designed to be tough enough for industrial use; MachineLink 3G Plus is an M2M router with versatile interfaces.

Anam Technologies, has appointed Brian D’Arcy as global VP of Managed Services.  Brian joins Anam Technologies from his position of Commercial director-O2 Media at Telefonica O2 Ireland.

Today, Vodafone publishes its annual M2M Barometer, supported by Circle Research, which undertook the surveying, and Machina Research, which provided market insight on the results.

Vodafone maintains its position as the number one global CSP for machine-to-machine, with AT&T, Deutsche Telekom and Telefonica making up the top tier. The last year has seen an evolution in operators’ approach to the M2M market from ‘global’ to ‘multi-local’ with implications for CSPs large and small.

Newbury, UK, 31 March 2014, Vodafone M-Pesa, the mobile money transfer and payment service that has transformed the lives of millions of people in emerging markets, has come to Europe for the first time.

We are only at the beginning of the machine-to-machine (M2M) revolution, believes Erik Brenneis, director of M2M at Vodafone, who has already seen the number of Vodafone M2M connections grow from 3 million to 14 million over the last four years. This is one of the conclusions of a new video interview on the M2M

Newbury, UK, 2 September 2013 – Vodafone has announced that it has reached agreement to dispose of its US group (whose principal asset is its 45% interest in Verizon Wireless) to its joint venture partner Verizon Communications Inc. for US$130 billion (£84 billion).

(Newbury, UK) — Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication is going to be big in every industry – very big. So says mobile network operator Vodafone, whose analysts forecast that 2.1 billion devices will be internet-connected by the end of the decade.

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Newbury, UK. June 26, 2013 — Vodafone today announced the launch of its first annual ‘M2M adoption barometer’ report, which finds that 50% of companies surveyed will have adopted the technology by 2015.

Vodafone today announced disappointing figures for its year ending March 31, 2013. Group revenue was down by 4.2% to £44.4 billion (€52.2bn) and full year organic service revenue declined -1.9%* (Q4 -4.2%*).

Copenhagen, Denmark – Globe Tracker International (GTI), a leader in data sharing, data analytics and asset tracking and monitoring, has announced that Vodafone is providing M2M communications via its Global SIM services to GTI’s Smart Autonomous Asset Solution.