The internet of things (IoT) continues to grow apace as more industries connect devices for commercial and operational reasons. Transforma Insights forecast global IoT connections to land at 18.2 billion this year, with a projected rise to 20.4 billion next. It is a linear...
The regulator said it will announce its final decision on the Vodafone-Three merger on December 7
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally found that a multi-billion-pound commitment to upgrade the network of the new entity resulting from the merger of local carriers...
India-based health-tech company LifeSigns has announced 4G/5G-based IoT hardware and airtime tie-ups with India-based IoT solutions provider Hetrogenous and London-based IoT airtime provider FloLIVE to launch a connected ambulance solution in the country. The LifeSigns product, called LifeConnect, uses medical sensors and live video...
Germany-headquartered IoT MVNO 1NCE has claimed another record year, outrunning its 2023 total with eight million new cellular IoT connections in the first three quarters of 2024. The firm added seven million new “endpoints” (connected devices) in 2023, it said. It counts 30 million...
An in-depth investigation carried out by the CMA has identified competition concerns related to the planned Vodafone-Three merger
U.K. carriers Vodafone and Three reiterated opposition with the country’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)’s provisional findings regarding their proposed merger, stating that the transaction is pro-competitive.
“The...
Data doesn’t just support decisions; it drives them. For mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), access to data is the one key differentiator upon which all other differentiators depend.
MVNOs are typically faster and more agile than their traditional MNO counterparts, “renting” network access and avoiding...
The CMA noted that it will release its final report on the Vodafone-Three merger on December 7, 2024
An in-depth investigation carried out by the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has identified competition concerns related to Vodafone’s planned merger with rival operator Three, the...
For the past decade or so, speed was the primary focus for operators. More bandwidth meant happier customers, paving the way for more data-intensive use cases like high-resolution video streaming and AR/VR services. That’s all well and good, but what use are lightning-fast speeds...
UK-based manufacturer Sollatek, known for power stability and energy optimization solutions, has picked Japan-based virtual IoT operator (MVNO) Soracom to connect its commercial refrigeration and coffee solutions, used for remote tracking and energy monitoring in international markets by major brands in the fast-moving consumer...
LG Uplus said it added 980,000 5G subscribers during 2023
Korean operator LG Uplus ended the fourth quarter of 2023 with 7.04 million 5G subscribers, up 16.2% year-on-year, according to the company’s latest earnings statement.
The telco added a total of 980,000 5G subscribers during 2023,...
Tesco Mobile is a joint venture owned equally by the Tesco Group and Virgin Media O2
U.K. carrier Virgin Media O2 and Tesco, owners of Tesco Mobile, have signed a 10-year renewal of their existing joint venture, the former said in a release.
Tesco Mobile is...
An interesting angle came up last week in a webinar about smart metering, hosted by eSIM specialist Kigen, where Danish meter maker Kamstrup responded to a question about how utility companies go about choosing connectivity technologies and connectivity providers by declaring cellular as the...
The government of Thailand said the proposed MVNO regulations stipulate that the existing operators can hold a share of the new regional MVNOs
The chairman of Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), Sarana Boonbaichaiyapruck, has outlined a plan to create more mobile virtual network...
NTT-owned IoT MVNO-enabler Transatel has signed a wholesale deal with O2 Telefónica in Germany to offer IoT coverage and applications for the automotive sector and wider industrial market. The arrangement gives the France-based firm, offering local MVNO and MVNE services in Europe for two...
Spectrum Mobile from Charter costs less and offers a more reliable connection to wireless data service compared to Xfinity Mobile from Comcast. The problem is these two companies do not compete. That means there is zero competitive pressure to keep all competitors at their...
Highly-acquisitive IoT connectivity provider Wireless Logic has snapped up US-headquartered virtual network operator (MVNO) Webbing for an undisclosed fee. The deal, its 10th in just a couple of years, extends the UK firm’s presence in the Asian and North American markets, and also gives...
Japan-based IoT connectivity provider Soracom, busily making alliances across the whole IoT industry, has expanded its roster of integrated SIM (iSIM) supply partners with IoT module makers Quectel and Murata. Soracom has been working already with chipset provider Sony Semiconductor Israel (Sony) and SIM...
Global revenues from cellular IoT networks increased 24 percent to reach €10.8 billion in 2022, calculates analyst firm Berg Insight. However they account for just two percent of total mobile revenues among the largest operator groups, it said, and are in general decline, with...
An IoT MVNO killer? It sure sounds like it, almost – if the whole rest of the global operator market could just pick it up. But no, says the global enterprise arm of US operator Verizon; IoT-geared MVNOs will plug into its new global...
US IoT developer Blues (Blues Wireless) has signed with Germany-based virtual IoT operator (MVNO) 1NCE to more than double its roaming access to national mobile networks around the world. The partnership has been presented by the pair as one between “the only companies offering...
Note this article is continued from a previous post, under the header: Private 5G for IoT – a year to get real, two to get really-real, six to be ‘seamless’. To read the previous entry, go here.; to watch the original webinar discussion on...
Note, this article, a direct transcript of a conversation with Kathiravan Kandasamy, vice president of product management at US-based carrier services company Syniverse, continues from a previous entry, which can be found here.
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You mentioned also that, in your experience with customers, that the private...
So, is the correct way to look at this, then, that the private 5G market, when it talks about private 5G, is obsessed with a future where Volkswagen is animating its production lines using Release 18-level URLLC 5G networks? But that the wider enterprise...
A session at RCR Live in London last month considered the role of new private cellular networks as a platform for industrial transformation, and as part of the broader event topic of telco transformation. It brought together private 5G specialists from UK-based mobile network...
