Delivering the Smart City Metaverse

In the smart city, networks connect everyone and everything – bridging the digital divide across the city and allowing digital services, such as next-generation healthcare and networked schools, to be deployed.

EchoStar ramps up European IoT push with The Things Industries

Satellite operator EchoStar is adding a terrestrial element to its European IoT strategy.

VMO2 trials ‘connected farm of the future’

UK operator VMO2 has launched a trial with Cannon Hall Farm in Barnsley, throwing out some ideas of how connectivity could improve rural agriculture in the future.

Qualcomm and AWS collaborate to develop the software defined vehicle

US giants Qualcomm and AWS reckon they can use their collective might to expedite the process of making vehicles umbilically connected to the cloud.

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5G and eSIM drive increased enterprise IoT growth

New research reveals that enterprises around the world are broadly optimistic about the prospects presented by IoT and are harnessing the latest technologies to exploit them.

Deutsche Telekom and MIRA pilot 5G powered ‘teleoperated’ shuttle service

German operator Deutsche Telekom and MIRA are playing around with the ‘shuttle service of the future’ in Bonn.

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Vodafone bags UK smart meter upgrade deal

The UK is adding a new mobile provider to its nationwide smart meter network for reasons that are not immediately clear.

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Bharti Airtel hooks up 20 million IoT devices

Indian operator Bharti Airtel has connected over 20 million IoT devices via its B2B division Airtel Business, as the country’s 5G surge rolls on.

Unveiling the 5G Auto Factory from Geely’s Zeekr in China

Zeekr, a Chinese electric vehicle brand under auto conglomerate Geely, is shaking up global auto manufacturing with its fully-connected 5G factory in Ningbo, China. The factory, developed with China Unicom Zhejiang, enables unprecedented customization options, highlighting the technology’s potential to reshape the industry and China’s push for commercial 5G.

IoT to account for over a quarter of 5G roaming connections

The Internet of Things will account for more than a quarter of 5G roaming connections in the next few years, new research shows, which could be good news for operators.

EchoStar snares seven IoT providers for its pan-Euro satellite network

Satellite services firm EchoStar has signed up a raft of new customers for its recently-launched IoT network.

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European IoT forecast spend to hit $227 billion in 2023

European businesses will spend US$227 billion on IoT this year alone, as cost-cutting initiatives spur spending on technology and services.

T-Mobile US targets safer roads with C-V2X pilot

T-Mobile US has partnered with its home city of Bellevue, Washington to help it make road-related deaths a thing of the past.

Samsung and Wind River team up over the ‘software-defined vehicle’

The supposed utopia of cars receiving constant over-the-air software updates is the reason for a new collaboration between Samsung’s chip business and embedded software specialist Wind River.

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Telefónica and ARME launch robotics research lab

Telefonica Tech, the telco’s inventive arm, and the Spanish Mobile Robotics Association (ARME) have teamed up to open a hub designed to boost the field of robotics in Spain.

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3.3 billion EoT devices will be trading with each other by 2030, apparently

A report – commissioned by Vodafone and carried out by STL Partners – estimates there will be 88 million devices next year that can ‘independently and securely trade together’, rising to 3.3 billion by 2030.