Over the next five years, shipments of consumer machine-to-machine devices are forecast to grow at a 39.8% compound annual growth rate to reach 37.9 million devices in 2016, according to a new research report from Berg Insight. According to the firm, the number of...
MIAMI - Amdocs has set its sights on transforming the set-top box into a media center controlled by tablets with integrated real-time social media and sharing tools. The 30-year-old customer experience system and services company is engaging 22 different areas in its innovation program to...
What the telecom industry has not changed in the past ten years, it is changing now – and in a drastic way. The advent of new technologies, such as mobile broadband, voice over IP (VoIP) and messaging, among others, have contributed to the shift....
Despite a lack of commercial launches, Brazil's mobile virtual network operator space seems to be cooking. At this point security insurance company Porto Seguro and Virgin Mobile Latin America, are both planning to launch MVNO services using Datora Telecom's network at some point this year....
While worldwide mobile data traffic is expected to increase 18-fold over the next five years, reaching 10.8 exabytes per month by 2016, in Brazil the rate is slightly higher with Cisco Systems predicting an 19-fold increase between 2011 and 2016. That will result in...
Telecom operators know that their competitive presence is increasingly coming from their ability to provide value-added services on top of their traditional voice and data offerings, otherwise they would be just pipes. This topic was key for OSS/BSS provider Amdocs as it unveiled a...
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.
Brazil has finally awoken to the enormous opportunities in the machine-to-machine communications market. M2M communications are roughly defined as the...
Latin American telecoms are gearing up to upgrade their infrastructure to support IPv6 as the supply of IPv4 addresses nears its end. For instance, mobile operator TIM has spent $740,000 on its networks in Brazil to prepare for the migration to the newer protocol.
Ericsson | August 26, 2011 | Press Release
Telecom operators all over the world are to find out how Ericsson’s acquisition of solutions provider Telenor Connexion’s machine-to-machine (M2M) technology platform can help them break into the M2M business. The acquisition of the M2M platform assets...
Speaking at the IBM Forum event in São Paulo, Don Tapscott, author of “Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World,” said that due to the prevalence of the Internet, we are currently living in the age of networked intelligence.
Tapscott explained that through technology, institutions can...
An increase in the machine-to-machine market may be driven by smart grid adoption, which is in its very beginnings in Brazil and other Latin American countries due to the lack of regulation. However, companies such as Elster Group believes that both Brazil and Latin...
Intel Corp. aims to play in wireless and device markets, introducing digital signage and machine-to-machine solutions. “We are working with some players to validate our chips to tablets and smartphones,” said Carlos Kokron, Intel’s Latin America’s director of carriers business, in an interview with...
Some people think this “Internet of Things” malarkey is a load of crap, and if you check out Parsons Grad Student Leif Percifield’s M2M initiative http://dontflush.me, you would be literally correct.
