IMS research claims that there will be more than 326 million cellular M2M connections globally by 2016, up from about 107 million today. For that to happen though, M2M has to play well with all that’s happening in the cloud. As a result, telcos have to figure out how to make on-demand connection management work across networks, clouds, and the public Internet
Read More »There was a focus on M2M at the recent ETIS Gathering in Athens. We agree that the market is about scale but we still cannot quite see where the opportunities lie. The now famous statistic that by 2020 50 billion devices will be connected was quoted several times and was not in any serious dispute. Research from Machina sizes the overall market at $913 billion (714 billion euros) at the magical 2020 weigh point. The market that is addressable by CSPs is $339 billion, according to Machina, but of that only $5 billion will be about
Read More »The $1.7 Billion M2M Software Market Sees Developers Increasingly Out-Sourcing Core Functionality | Press Release | ABI Research
Read More »Interesting development in the M2M world, or at least the connectivity piece. It will be interesting to see how many telecoms companies will venture into the unknown world beyond connectivity, with so many other opportunities and threats to address – payments, OTT players (both opportunities). TelecomTV | News | Seven major operators form global M2M partnership
Read More »Douglas Adams, the Writer (capitals intended) and inventor of the Hitch Hikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, was interviewed in 2000. During the interview, he said that we had made computers to fit into rooms, then we made them to fit on desks, then in briefcases, then in pockets and soon “they’ll be as plentiful as dust – you can sprinkle computers all over the place. Gradually the whole environment will become something far more responsive and smart.” He also conceived the wireless internet while lying on his back in a field just outside Innsbruck a
Read More »The industry is divided on whether NFC is the cornerstone of mobile payments, or something much bigger. BillingViews decided to ask the decision makers. NFC Infographic publish
Read More »Talking to operators about billing is completely different to talking to anyone else about billing. Journalists are hugely influenced by the press releases and the reports they receive, full of promises and growth. Vendors have a job to do, which includes pushing their products and visions of the future. Operators have the worst job, they have to keep sending out accurate bills for the services that consumers are consuming – today. It is a different world. To have the opportunity to talk to operators about what they are focused on is always worthwhile and oddly
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Read More »Once you start putting SIM cards in cars you are going to start to roam. Not only will M2M roaming produce almost as many puns as the cloud does, but it too will require serious consideration by many different parties. The most obvious ‘roaming’ issue is when a car, for instance, is made in one country and exported to another. Are the SIM card or cards put in at the point of manufacture or the point of (local) distribution? If they are put in by the manufacturer, then the SIM are roaming as soon as they are delivered, if not they
Read More »One of the big barriers to electric cars taking off – or at least driving off – is lack of charging stations. They are few and far between and finding them and planning your journey accordingly is a challenge. However, if you could drive your car up to your friend’s house, the gas station, bus stop, parking lot, top up your car and drive off, the problem would go away. Charging stations would be as close as the nearest electric socket. It seems that ELVIIS has solved the problem. A collaboration between Ericsson Labs and the Viktoria Institute
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