You’d be forgiven for thinking the Internet of Things had to be great news for operators. They are, after all, in the business of connecting stuff, and once the perennially emergent IoT ecosystem has finally actually emerged, there’s going to be a ridiculous amount more stuff to connect.
Thread, an IP-based wireless protocol designed for consumer IoT in the home, has been unveiled, with the organisation also confirming Qualcomm Technologies as a member of its board of directors.
Mobile Word Congress Shanghai is going on this week, and carrier aggregation tech will be taking centre stage, with Huawei and Nokia both showing off new LTE-A solutions.
While growth from IoT is well documented, what is still not clear is what is needed to enable service providers to support this burgeoning market quickly and efficiently.
Alcatel-Lucent has laid claim to a live NFV first alongside China Mobile. The kit vendor reckons it has conducted the industry’s first field trial of the virtualized-RAN.
Chinese institutions China Unicom Shanghai, China Unicom Research Institute and kit vendor Huawei have developed a collaborative partnership to develop a pilot of cellular IoT.
Korean operator SK Telecom has announced it is the first Asian mobile operator to join the LoRa Alliance, which is one of a few emerging IoT consortia looking to add some coherence to the tech mega-trend.
A report unveiled by Telecoms.com Intelligence has found that the majority of operators believe they’ll be ready to extract revenue from IoT within the next five years.
Just as with the rest of IoT, the connected home has been the subject of a lot of speculation but little end product. One company that hasn’t been afraid to try some out on its customers is Swiss operator Swisscom.
Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has confirmed its “spearheading” of a dedicated European Union project designed to provide a common consensus of the radio network requirements for a standardised 5G network.
Japanese mobile network operator NTT DoCoMo has announced a memorandum of understanding with GE Digital to co-develop a new platform for enabling IoT, specifically industrial.
Europe, led by a German manufacturing charge, is the world’s fastest growing region for M2M and IoT connections, says Vodafone.
Idealists and sceptics alike could agree that the European Union and the Internet of Things have a lot in common. An idealist might be inclined to see both as seeking to pull down divisions that have traditionally separated bodies of knowledge and industry, to create an intelligent, integrated whole.
Swedish networking giant Ericsson has made no attempt to hide the fact that it needs to diversify in order to survive and the nature of that diversification just got a bit clearer.
Orange has unveiled its new lab dedicated to network virtualization and cloud computing, called I/O Lab. It’s targeting an open and accessible environment for collaboration with the wider industry.
African operator MTN has announced the launch of an IoT platform alongside Chinese kit vendor ZTE. The platform is already live in South Africa, with plans to extend it through the continent under way.
It’s predicted that in as little as five years from now there will be more than 250 million connected cars on our roads, a fact which presents both a global opportunity for the Internet of Things (IoT), savvy car manufacturers and a huge challenge for the IT industry.
UK financial services provider Barclaycard has announced an expansion of its bPay contactless payment platform, with the addition of three new wearables and a refreshed portal.
Following its launch in March, the Wireless IoT Forum has announced its founding board members, featuring BT, Cisco, Accenture and Telensa, among others.
Orange SVP of network architecture and design, Alain Maloberti, used his keynote address at the LTE World Summit to highlight how the French telco plans on embracing IoT, while looking towards the arrival of 5G.
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