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Kyndryl's Japanese subsidiary has announced a strategic partnership with Japanese telco SoftBank, which focuses on multi-cloud enablement, systems integration and 5G networking to "drive digital transformation projects" for Japan-based customers, the two companies said in a release.
Under the terms of the deal, Kyndryl and...
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 firm SIMON IoT, based out of the same Westbury address as Business Mobility Partners,...
Telecommunications infrastructure operator Cellnex said it is targeting 80% coverage of Ireland with its national Internet of Things (IoT) network by the end of this year.
Through its partnership with Everynet, Cellnex aims to bring a new nationwide low power wide area (LoRaWAN) network to...
T-Mobile US and Deutsche Telekom launched T-IoT, a new enterprise solution for global IoT connectivity, platform management and support.
In a joint statement, the companies said that the new offering will be available across 188 destinations, on 383 networks worldwide.
The companies also noted that many...
UK enterprises are looking to 5G to help alleviate immediate business pressures brought by the COVID-19 pandemic and related global events, according to a new study by EY.
The EY Reimagining industry futures study revealed that 80% of respondents say the impact of the global...
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 (or the whole tragic series) – and as Enterprise IoT Insights breaks from straight...
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 for the Industry 4.0 market. The partnership has emerged from a joint private 5G...
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 parent company, France-based Tofane Global. The cloud-based Simfony IoT platform, available on subscription (“as-a-service”),...
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 by high-end 5G and, in particular, low-end NB-IoT and LTE-M, it said. These opposite...
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 people to know it’s better than the alternatives. Meanwhile, people working on alternatives argue...
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 before the auction process closes on February 25. Others in the frame include US...
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 is available here, or by clicking on the image below.
Is there a trend...
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 where their mouths are, and investing in industrial IoT. That is the message, effectively,...
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 and reusable box trackers. Traxens, which counts Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk (Maersk) among...
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 10 years. The operator said it was its “largest ever IoT deal”, in terms...
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 intelligence and automation to its facilities management operation, as well as to drive its...
5G will connect IoT sensors, including cameras, on waste trucks
A collaboration between Swinburne University of Technology and Brimbank City Council in Australia will result in an interconnected network of garbage trucks that will use the 5G network and the Internet of Things (IoT).
The project...
As it continues to deploy its 5G network, with the latest boost from C-Band spectrum deployment increasing covered PoPs by 90 million, Verizon is following a “network-as-a-service” strategy that will open up new consumer and enterprise opportunities.
FWA for consumers and enterprises
For consumers, Verizon offers...
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 France based Sigfox network operation. The auction, to recover funds in default and potentially...
On the path to $700 billion, Qualcomm reports growth in handsets, RF front-end, automotive and IoT
A little less than three months after laying out its 10-year growth plan at an investors event, Qualcomm this week report a record first quarter with year-over-year revenue growth...
The penny has dropped – IoT is not a winner-takes-all market. Increasingly, IoT solution providers are looking to mix and match low-power IoT technologies to serve complex use cases and drive efficiencies. This report discusses the combination, variously, of wide-area IoT (LoRaWAN, Sigfox, NB-IoT, LTE-M),...
The penny has dropped – IoT is not a winner-takes-all market. Increasingly, IoT solution providers are looking to mix and match low-power IoT technologies to serve complex use cases and drive efficiencies.
This report discusses the combination, variously, of wide-area IoT (LoRaWAN, Sigfox, NB-IoT, LTE-M),...
This discussion is missing something, of course; IoT is not supposed to be written about as an environmental risk. The idea that billions of disposable trackers might litter the planet is an alarmist angle, arguably, on a tech-for-good story. Because, in most cases, the...
