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NTT DoCoMo, GE agree on joint solution for Industrial IoT

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.

• 09 Jul 2015

Europe leads M2M and IoT growth, says Vodafone

Europe, led by a German manufacturing charge, is the world’s fastest growing region for M2M and IoT connections, says Vodafone.

• 08 Jul 2015

Ericsson details strategic plans beyond telecoms sector

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.

• 06 Jul 2015

Orange creates NFV and Cloud testing lab for 5G advances

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.

• 02 Jul 2015

Better LTE than never – the case for 4G public safety

Plans to upgrade the UK’s TETRA public safety network have been under scrutiny of late, and concerns have been raised over how best to manage the migration from an established public safety standard to LTE.

• 01 Jul 2015

MTN kickstarts IoT in Africa with ZTE

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.

• 01 Jul 2015

Telefónica unveils standalone IoT smart buttons

The R&D division of Spanish telco Telefónica – I+D – has launched a new line of ‘smart buttons’ that enable IoT functionality without the need for an accompanying connected device.

• 23 Jun 2015

4x cellular IoT connection growth forecasted by 2019

IT analyst firm 451 Research has forecasted the growth of cellular network-based connections for IoT-devices as anticipation surrounding the tech continues to grow. It also reckons wearable tech as a major enterprise tool will become reality in the next 12 months.

• 17 Jun 2015

Consortium including Orange and Foxconn backs LoRa IoT startup Actility

A group of tech companies including operators Orange, KPN and Swisscom and manufacturing giant Foxconn have put $25 million into Actility, an IoT startup focused on the LoRaWAN standard.

• 16 Jun 2015

ITU starts IoT smart cities standardisation

The ITU has begun work on identifying the standardisation requirements of IoT tech, specifically citing smart city applications as its initial focus.

• 11 Jun 2015

Connected cars forecast to be 20% of car market by 2019

Analyst firm Juniper Research has forecast the connected car market to grow faster than any other M2M segment and to account for a fifth of total passenger car revenue by 2019.

• 02 Jun 2015

Intel joins IoT M&A frenzy with $17 billion Altera acquisition

Chip giant Intel has wasted little time in joining the recent flurry of semiconductor M&A activity by acquiring embedded chip company Altera for $16.7 billion.

• 01 Jun 2015

Avago buys Broadcom for $37 billion to create IoT chip giant

It seems every corner of the mobile market is consolidating right now and semiconductors are clearly no exception, as digital signal processing chip maker Avago swoops for communications chip company Broadcom for $37 billion.

• 28 May 2015

Can the Internet of Things save Edna?

In what’s been coined the year of wearable technology, the provision of empowering and intuitive monitoring is something that will increasingly play a part in both our lives and the lives of our loved ones.

• 28 May 2015

Research explores impact of connected cars and M2M on mobile networks

A study commissioned by network assurance outfit Teoco into the impact of M2M on mobile networks has predicted a doubling of data traffic on some cells as a result of M2M in the next decade.

• 21 May 2015

Former Qualcomm exec Rob Chandhok introduces Helium IoT venture

Rob Chandhok is a familiar figure to many who have been covering the mobile sector in recent years, having been a senior exec at mobile chip giant Qualcomm and one of the few allowed to speak to the press. But last December he decided it was time to move on and joined IoT startup Helium.

• 02 Apr 2015

Amazon launches improbable IoT button

Despite today’s date all the signs are this is a genuine story. E-commerce giant Amazon has made its latest move to do to FMCGs what it already has to consumer durables by introducing a physical button that is used for one-click ordering of consumables such as washing powder and printer ink.

• 01 Apr 2015

IBM to spend $3 billion on new IoT business unit

IBM announced it plans to spend up to £2bn over the next four years to consolidate and revamp its Internet of Things technologies and services into a standalone business unit, reports Business Cloud News. The move seems aimed at broadening its appeal beyond proto-IoT segments it traditionally caters to.

• 31 Mar 2015

Gemalto insists state hacking story more about privacy than security

Speaking to Telecoms.com at Mobile World Congress 2015 Remi de-Fouchier, Marcomms VP of Gemalto’s telecom business unit, insisted the issues raised by the latest round of Snowden revelations are more to do with privacy than security.

• 12 Mar 2015

White space spectrum gets coexistence standard

Standards body the IEEE this week released documentation on TV white space coexistence methods. Specifically, the IEEE 802.19.1 standard is intended to play to the cognitive radio capabilities of TV white space devices, including geolocation awareness and access to information databases.

• 18 Sep 2014