MFA, formerly the MulteFire Alliance, has released a set of ‘technology blueprints’ for industrial 5G networks and devices to help enterprise users, device makers, and application developers select key 3GPP …
James Blackman
James Blackman
James Blackman has been writing about the technology and telecoms sectors for over a decade. He has edited and contributed to a number of European news outlets and trade titles. He has also worked at telecoms company Huawei, leading media activity for its devices business in Western Europe. He is based in London.
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Core network provider Druid Software has partnered with IoT positioning firm Polte to bring the Texas firm’s ‘cloud location over cellular’ (C-LoC) tech to private LTE and 5G networks, and …
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UK-based (Sweden-owned) IoT connectivity specialist Wyld Networks and US-based IoT solution provider TrakAssure have announced the first fruit of their joint labour, also with LoRaWAN system provider Senet and satellite …
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Following Cisco’s soft-launch at the start of the month – and also leapfrogging it with an immediate commercial release – rival IT vendor Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced a …
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The (real) IoT market is both highly fragmented and deeply incestuous. This is not news, of course; it is to be expected for a market that is competitive and collaborative …
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IoT solution provider UnaBiz has acquired Sensatag, a five year-old Netherlands-based provider of low-power industrial IoT tracking solutions, for an undisclosed fee. Sensatag has a decent line in Sigfox trackers; …
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Note, this article is taken from a new editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights, Hybrid Low-Power IoT – How The IoT Industry Is Balancing Function And Efficiency. The report is …
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US-based Federated Wireless, offering shared spectrum services in the CBRS band, has raised $58 million in Series D funding. The new investment will go to accelerate growth in enterprise markets, …
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IoT provider KORE has acquired Business Mobility Partners, a T-Mobile airtime reseller in the US with a focus on the digital healthcare market. It has also acquired fellow New York-based …
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Last update from us on the Sigfox “soap opera” (someone else’s words), almost / perhaps, before the credits roll at the end of next week on its latest tangled episode …
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The energy division of Japanese industrial conglomerate Hitachi has launched a new line of 5G-enabled routers for smart cities, oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, and utility customers. Its upgraded TRO600 …
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Network vendor Nokia is working with New York-based managed infrastructure services provider Kyndryl, separated from IBM late last year, to jointly sell and develop private networking and edge computing solutions …
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Boston-headquartered carrier services company iBASIS has acquired Dutch IoT platform provider and mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) Simfony for an undisclosed fee. The deal was completed via iBASIS’s highly acquisitive …
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The global value of the cellular IoT market will almost double to $61 billion by 2026, from $31 billion in 2022, according to Juniper Research. The growth will be driven …
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When you’re launching a new technology, it’s easy to develop a rooting interest. It’s only human – you devote your passion and energy to this new innovation, and you want …
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Singapore-based UnaBiz is in “pole position” to pick up the tech assets of troubled IoT firm Sigfox, in receivership, as a number of other groups and organisations also prepare bids …
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Note, this article forms the introduction to a new editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights, Hybrid Low-Power IoT – How The IoT Industry Is Balancing Function And Efficiency. The report …
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Business solutions provider NTT is working with US software firm ServiceNow to introduce an “AI-enabled end-to-end workflow automation platform” to its private 5G proposition. The idea is enterprises will be …
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Industrial IoT is the tech answer to the business challenge of environmental sustainability. Everyone says so; everyone knows so. And yet only a third of enterprises are putting their money …
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France-based container tracking company Traxens has raised €23 million in a further funding round, led by existing investors, and at the same time acquired local rival NEXT4, which produces removable …
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Telstra has announced a AUS$100 million deal with utility services provider Intellihub to provide up to 4.1 million cellular IoT SIMs for smart energy meters in Australia over the next …
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The National University of Singapore (NUS) is working with operator StarHub to leverage 5G and IoT as part of a two-year trial to build a ‘smart campus’ infrastructure to bring …
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Cisco is readying a Wi-Fi-style pay-as-you-go private LTE and 5G offer for enterprises, and particularly for industrial enterprises, which comprises Cisco-led pre-sale network-design consultancy and post-sale network management support. Details …
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The court-appointed receivers in charge of France-based ultra-narrowband IoT technology company Sigfox have initiated a competitive bidding process for the company’s various technology assets, customer accounts, and going-concerns, including its …
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Japanese manufacturing group Mitsubishi Electric has inducted country-mate NTT Docomo into its new Industry 4.0 alliance in Thailand in order to offer private 5G with smart manufacturing solutions from other …
