The US Department of Defense (DoD) has issued a strategy document to outline its requirements for private 5G at military installations. It recognizes the value of private 5G at its operations bases, as a complement to commercial public 5G for general-purpose broadband, to bring...
Last year, Vodafone and 1&1 had signed a preliminary contract to work together from this summer
German carriers Vodafone and 1&1 confirmed they have launched their national roaming partnership to offer mobile communications across the country.
Last year, both operators had already agreed in a preliminary...
Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier provides all Magenta Security Roaming services with dedicated support and strict SLAs
Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier announced the launch of a new security offering dubbed Magenta Security Roaming, which the company said is aimed at future-proofing roaming security.
The German carrier said...
Barcelona-based satellite IoT provider Sateliot, building an NB-IoT satellite system based on Release 17 specs in the 5G NR cellular standard, has announced a deal with freight software and analytics company t42 to deploy “thousands of 5G-IoT sensors” in shipping containers for “more than...
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...
Wi-Fi OpenRoaming allows for seamless Wi-Fi onboarding from location to location without the need for logins or passwords
Systems integrator TecExpert Brasil has introduced OpenRoaming Wi-Fi hotspots at the Teatro Gazeta theater in São Paulo, announced the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA).
OpenRoaming, developed by Cisco and now controlled by WBA, allows for seamless Wi-Fi...
IoT MVNO startup FloLIVE claims to have solved the challenge of IoT roaming in Turkey, one of several major markets to impose restrictions on permanent roaming. The London-based firm has worked with SIM specialist Kigen and local telco provider Protahub to enable globally-provisioned eSIMs...
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The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today released a new report called Get Ready for Wi-Fi 7: Applying New Capabilities to the Key Use Cases. The report is led by WBA members Broadcom, CableLabs, Cisco and Intel and looks at Wi-Fi 7’s most impressive features...
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...
UK-based IoT MVNO Eseye has been selected by UK freight software and analytics company t42 to supply global roaming and multi-IMSI eSIM services for its global container tracking solutions. The deal is an extension of an existing partnership, which has already seen t42 deploy...
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...
Soracom has introduced a new multi-carrier IoT service to cover the US market, piggybacking on the cellular networks of AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. The new data plan, called US-MAX, offers the “largest IoT coverage” in the US, plus automated-roaming between the three networks for...
The 5G inter-network roaming trial will be launched in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region
Telecom operators in China said they will jointly launch what they claim to be the world's first commercial 5G inter-network roaming service trial.
According to local press reports, the trial will be...
The deal includes high-traffic shopping districts in Tokyo’s 23 wards and the cities of Osaka and Nagoya
Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile signed a new three-year roaming agreement with rival operator KDDI and its subsidiary Okinawa Cellular.
In a release, Rakuten Mobile said the new roaming deal...
UK-based IoT connectivity provider Eseye has struck a deal with Orange’s wholesale business in France to resolve permanent roaming issues for IoT customers in certain territories. The arrangement enables Eseye to piggyback on Orange’s roaming footprint with 700-odd network operators in 220-odd destinations. It...
UK telecoms operator BT is offering a “new” national roaming service for IoT SIMs on its EE mobile network, plus on infrastructure managed by UK telco rivals and rented by partner MVNOs “where required”. The service will connect to traditional higher-powered M2M-style cellular 2G,...
Canada-based cellular IoT specialist Sierra Wireless, under the stewardship of US LoRaWAN outfit Semtech since last month, has launched a new eSIM / eUICC service offering multi-carrier connectivity in the US, it has said. The new service, called Smart Connectivity Premium, uses the eSIM...
Earlier this year, Transforma Insights undertook a survey of 1,100+ enterprises in the US and Europe, asking about their buying behaviour and vendor preferences cellular IoT connectivity. As part of that survey, we asked respondents which connectivity providers they were aware of, which they...
Ericsson has agreed to sell its IoT business, including its IoT Accelerator connectivity management platform and Connected Vehicle Cloud platform, to California-based IoT provider Aeris. The Swedish firm said its IoT business, expected to post net sales of SEK 0.8 billion ($76.85 million) in...
France-based virtual operator Transatel, busily offering somehow-unfashionable local MVNO and MVNE services in Europe for two decades already, has a second (actually, third and fourth) life, suddenly, in the global IoT game – which has become even racier in recent years with its acquisition...
Senet has expanded its public LoRaWAN network across all five boroughs of New York City through a combination of Senet-owned infrastructure, roaming deals with partner networks, and formal integration with Helium network, the company has said. The US LoRaWAN operator is on a charm...
French aerospace and security company Thales is working with Belgium-based carrier services company BICS to simplify embedded SIM (eSIM) usage in the IoT market, the pair have said. Basically, Thales has engineered a new eSIM activation solution for IoT devices, and notably IoT devices...
