Canada’s Sierra Wireless is getting out of the AirCard business, announcing plans to sell its wireless modem business to NetGear for $138 million. The deal includes all assets and operations from Sierra’s AirCard operations, including customer relationships, products, intellectual property, inventory and fixed assets,...
Our world is increasingly connected. Mobile data traffic continues to rise and new devices are constantly emerging into our everyday lives. According to analyst Mary Meeker, 13% of all mobile traffic
We expect some fabulousness and some losers in this crazy world of the “Internet of things” and machine-to-machine. This topic may not be quite as dramatic as those of my associates Paris Hilton or Perez Hilton,
Machine-to-machine solutions are changing how we live and work. Smoke alarms do not just sound an alarm; they send an alert to the fire service at the same time.
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.
About 65 years ago, the Brazilian company Viação Águia Branca (VAB) began to work in transportation. It remained a pioneer...
ORLANDO, FL—Verizon has invested well over U.S.$150 billion in platforms, solutions and services over the past ten years. The company invested in fiber to cover 17 million people by 2004. It acquired MCI, looking to enhance its IP backbone. With 007, Verizon embraced security,...
A previous RCR Wireless News article highlighted the topic of new machine-to-machine business models with reference to the size and characteristics of this fast growing market opportunity.
The Spanish telecom group Telefónica announced that it has integrated its machine-to-machine (M2M) services for smart cities into a global solution. The company said the new offering will create an open ecosystem which will enable town councils, urban service providers and entrepreneurs to integrate all...
It takes the right combination of hardware, software, networks and services to monitor a loved one with Alzheimer’s, track mobile workers, pinpoint an offender’s whereabouts, maintain visibility
Vivo, the Brazilian unit of the Spanish group Telefónica, announced its machine-to-machine strategy for the local market, aiming to double its accesses from 1 million to 2 million connections by the end of next year. Vivo's offers are in line with Telefónica's cloud-based global...
RIO DE JANEIRO – Telecom operators have to secure partnerships to make the machine-to-machine market take off across Brazil. During a panel held at this week’s Futurecom event, executives from carriers and vendors discussed the main challenges of developing solutions to fit in the...
Held for the first time in the city of Rio de Janeiro, the largest Latin American telecom event, Futurecom, aims to promote the discussion of several important topics. People who attend the 14th edition of Futurecom certainly expect to discuss mobile and fixed broadband, the...
Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, signed a law that creates incentives for technological innovation, establishes programs to support broadband network installation and restores digital inclusion projects in the country's public schools. Rousseff did veto Article 34, which would have created tax credits for the telecom...
The Spanish group Telefónica has taken one more step to develop the machine-to-machine (M2M) business. The telecom operator announced a joint investment with La Caixa in addFleet, a company specialized in making intelligent systems for transportation. AddFleet is preparing the international launch of a...
The Brazilian insurance company Porto Seguro has started mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) services, providing machine-to-machine connections (M2M) to track 2,000 vehicles owned by current customers. The goal is to reach 450,000 vehicles over the next two years. The company also plans to launch...
In a month when Anatel, Brazil's telecom regulatory agency, banned three telecom operators from selling mobile services for ten days, the country registered the lowest growth rate since 2006: with only 279,723 new active lines added in July. Brazil now counts a total of 256.41 million of...
Headquartered in Uberlândia, a city with 600,000 residents in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, Algar Telecom is the biggest part of the Algar Group, a private, family-owned company that runs nine different businesses in areas such as telecommunications, tourism, agriculture and aviation. Of...
Vivo, the Brazilian unit of Spain-based Telefónica, said it has increased its machine-to-machine accesses by 2.5-times in a period of one year (from May 2011 to May 2012). Although M2M applications are just starting to be adopted in the Latin American region, including in...
The total amount of government taxes is one of the biggest barriers to widespread adoption of machine-to-machine (M2M) in Brazil. According to current laws, telecom operators have to pay the same taxes for either a mobile line or an M2M application. “Reducing taxes will...
By 2020, the Latin American region is expected to account for U.S.$92 billion of the total potential U.S.$1.2 trillion worldwide revenue for mobile network operators with machine-to-machine applications. “Latin America is the fourth largest, and we believe it could have a better position,”...
There is no going back when telecom operators move to become integrators of information and communication technology (ICT) , since carriers are seeking ways to avoid becoming just dumb pipe. "They aim to increase revenue through ICT by adding services to their business-to-business (B2B)...
RACO Wireless made a pair of announcements on Tuesday at the Connected World conference that add breadth and maintain a level of depth in the Machine-to-Machine ecosystem.
The first announcement stated that RACO Wireless and T-Mobile USA will partner with Apriva to support the mobile...
Brazilian Datora Telecom is seeking to get a big share of the machine-to-machine market. The company has just announced a mobile unit dubbed Datora Mobile. At the same time, the company also said it aims to get 15% of the country’s M2M market over...
The Brazilian business-to-business communication service provider TESA Telecom has requested a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) license from the regulatory agency Anatel, as it looks forward to launching machine-to-machine (M2M) services.
The whole M2M project includes partnership with Algar Telecom as an MNO, Transtelco as...
