Machine-to-machine provider Kore Wireless Group, fueled by a majority interest purchase by investment firm Abry Partners, announced an all-cash acquisition of M2M and "Internet of Things" services company Raco Wireless.
Kore focuses on machine-to-machine connectivity using GSM, HSPA, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO, LTE and satellite services to industry...
I just spent the last two days at the Telematics Munich event. It’s great to see the overnight growth and abundant options for innovation and change in this industry. For those of you who may not be familiar with this event, it is not...
Orbcomm, a New Jersey-based machine-to-machine network solutions provider announced a public offering designed to raise $72 million toward the company’s planned $130 million acquisition of SkyWave Mobile Communications.
Canada-based SkyWave provides M2M services using the Inmarsat global L-band satellite network; the company has some 250,000...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News has made many questionable decisions over the years. One of which is agreeing to let a long-time industry observer provide commentary on what is chapping his hide across the wireless industry. His name is Hunter Gates. We call him...
The trend today is for everyone to talk about connected cars and it seems as though almost every telecom operator says they are playing here. But at what level are they doing connected cars and how much is aspirational for the future versus having a...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
The automotive industry is on the verge of its biggest transformation in over a century – and it’s all down...
Machine-to-machine technology will soon be available around the globe, according to market research firm Berg Insight. The spread of M2M, which allows devices to communicate without human intervention, is being driven – quite literally – by connected cars.
M2M has been a long-term evolutionary trend coming for many...
It’s Freitag and the weekend is upon us. Each week this column will focus on light hearted musings of the wireless industry and all of the moving parts that make this industry work. Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her entire career...
Aeris has announced the launch of Neo; a Web services platform to ease the challenges with launching "Internet of Things" functionality. Think about this in the context of an Amazon Web Services model.
At the simplest level AWS enables the on-demand delivery of IT resources...
AT&T Mobility is targeting international travelers with its Passport packages, which provide a bucket of calling minutes, text messages and data access for a flat rate.
The packages begin at $30 and include unlimited text, picture and video messages, 120 megabytes of cellular data, unlimited...
Last week I mentioned the Orange-Tesla partnership announcement and since then have had the opportunity to discuss in more depth with Samuel Loyson, Orange Business Services Head of Connected Car Program, details behind the announcement.
In 2011, the Smart Cities & Territories program was launched...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
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Corporate and industrial applications — rather than much-publicized consumer applications — will be the initial drivers of the wearable device...
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Things move. Sounds like a simple statement that doesn’t surprise anyone. But as you start to think about supporting "Internet of Things" and connected cars the discussion becomes much more complex. In the United States it’s not as difficult as there aren’t as many...
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Hitachi’s focus is squarely on virtualization of the control plane with its recently announced, fully virtualized MME/SGSN that supports the NFVI. It is an evolution of...
As access to space becomes more commonplace, wireless companies that rely in part or completely upon satellite communications stand to gain. The pinnacle of space technology will be reached, as has been the case in past eras, when it becomes commercially viable.
Today, dynamic new...
The great thing about the “Internet of Things” is that, by definition, it is a very big space and covers everything from a connected washing machine to industrial machine-to-machine applications and solutions. The industry obviously loves this approach since many companies, no matter what...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
Successful monetization of the machine-to-machine market will take more than just connected devices working in harmony. It will require carriers...
Building on today’s early article about the Internet of Things (IoT) and all of the beneficial things these technologies can do for us. We’ll now focus on those topics that I’m not so sure about or that just simply defy logic.
Here are five questionable...
The Internet of Things (IoT) or the Internet of Everything, if you prefer, needs involvement from the mobile operators in order for this vision to become a success. Although many are playing in the machine-to-machine (M2M) space, does this really take us down a...
Four years ago Telekom Austria created a separate organization to focus on M2M. What had started as an opportunistic business focused on meeting customers’ needs by using existing products and customizing them as required had grown to justify standing on its own two feet.
Now...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and Security. Having experience at an operator, software and hardware vendors and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing those opinions along...
Finding connected cars on the road today are not common, but GSMA Connected Car Forum reports 20% of global vehicle sales will have "embedded connectivity solutions" and over 50% will be connected by tethering or integrating a smart phone by the end of 2015....
