Nine billion cellular smartphone and IoT devices with embedded and integrated SIMs (eSIMs and iSIMs) will be in the market by 2030, reckons Counterpoint Research. This total will mean nearly 70 percent of all “shipped” cellular-based devices will feature eSIMs, iSIMs, or proprietary equivalents...
UK-based IoT security provider Crypto Quantique, Luxembourg-based IoT connectivity provider ZARIOT, and Ireland-based eSIM vendor Kigen have aligned to implement the GSMA’s IoT-SAFE standard to leverage the hardware root-of-trust in a cellular hardware-based SIM with quantum-safe technology for the first time, they have said....
In case you missed it, SIM specialist Kigen hosted a webinar earlier this month about smart metering – but more about the impact of embedded SIM (eSIM) technology, actually, for the whole IoT market – which presented a thorough view of the varying rates...
Note this article is continued from a previous entry, under the title ‘Cellular has changed’ – eSIM positions cellular IoT for energy transition. Click here for the previous instalment.
But, as said, metering is a weird game, which employs different technologies in different local markets...
When deploying IoT equipment in remote locations, chances are you’ll be using cellular communication to collect data from and send instructions to each device. This means you’ll need a subscriber identity module — more commonly known as a SIM, or, as they were known...
As a matter of record, commonly missed, it is worth noting that eSIM and eUICC are different technologies. Asked about the application of eSIM (and iSIM) in smart metering, specifically, Neil Bosworth, head of vertical segments and IoT products at Telit Cinterion, wants this...
We are a little tardy with this, but it is worth bookmarking in time for the upcoming RCR Wireless report and webinar on smart meters (October 19; sign-up here!), and memorialising for future IoT articles and reports. The GSMA’s new IoT SAFE standard, launched...
More than six billion devices with embedded or integrated SIMs (eSIMs and iSIMs), plus related form factors (nuSIM and Soft SIM, for example), will be shipped over the next five years, to 2030. Seventy percent of all cellular-based devices shipped over the period will...
Belfast-based SIM development firm Kigen, previously part of chip design company Arm, is working with US carrier AT&T to enable IoT manufacturers to transfer SIM ownership of AT&T-connected IoT devices to their customers, in the form of end-user facing IoT providers, post-production – without...
When buying a new digital service, be it Netflix or Spotify, customers complete the on-boarding process and then start using the service straight away. For the vast majority of mobile customers, there is usually a delay of several days between on-boarding and getting to...
NTT Com said the new service will target clients that deploy equipment such as automobiles, construction or agricultural machinery
Japanese company NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced the launch of IoT Connect Mobile Type A, or ICM(A), an IoT connectivity service for mobile connectivity via SIM...
The ability of eSIM technology to deliver advanced security, seamless and flexible connectivity, and full end-to-end digitalisation – along with myriad other benefits such as greener supply chains – has long promised to transform the connected ecosystem. Trusted Connectivity Alliance (TCA) has been tracking...
AT&T has teamed up with Belfast-based SIM specialist Kigen, spun-out of chip design company Arm at the end of last year, to allow cellular IoT device makers to source integrated SIM solutions earlier in the manufacturing process. This includes at the point of contract...
Innovative module-software embedded SIM technology expands from 2G to deliver simplification in logistics, lower costs and massive scalability to 4G cellular IoT
Telit simWISE is an integral part of the company’s global connectivity offering and award winning Telit OneEdge suite of software, SaaS...
Editor’s note: Click here for part 1 and here for part 2 of this three-part series on blockchain technology in the telecom industry. The first six telecom applications of blockchain are covered in part 2.
Blockchain applications in the telecom industry
7. Blockchain in roaming management
These telco services...
Telenor provided IoT solution set for manufacturer
Carpigiani, an Italian-based manufacturer of machines for gourmet ice creams, had improved some key business processes through the implementation of an IoT solution provided by Nordic firm Telenor Connexion.
The company manufactures more than 10,000 ice cream machines every...
In New Zealand, where agriculture plays a central role in the country’s economy, mobile operator Vodafone is helping local farmers to improve performance and reduce costs through precision agriculture tools.
Vodafone’s Precision Farming solution is designed to allow farmers to use only the amount of...
The fleet management service is offered through Vodafone’s global internet of things platform.
Vodafone Qatar, a subsidiary of U.K.-based Vodafone Group, launched fleet management services in partnership with Qatar Mobility Innovations Center. The service is designed to track and perform logistics...
Arviem selects Vodafone’s IoT platform for cargo monitoring as a service
Arviem, a Swiss service provider of real-time cargo monitoring services, is working with U.K-based telecoms group Vodafone in order to use the latter’s Managed IoT Connectivity Platform to improve its service offerings.
The Swiss company...
Gemalto notes ecosystem-wide benefits to the use of eSIMs in wearables
Since the launch of smartwatches – first Pebble, then Samsung Gear and now Apple Watch – the wearables market has expanded beyond mobile health and fitness trackers to mass consumer devices that are packed...
Mobile network operators will have to be nimble in 2016
Editor’s Note: With 2016 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year.
It’s no secret mobile network operators are...
ChatSim looks to Asia-Pacific market for growth
SHANGHAI – Italian instant messaging provider ChatSim said it expects to reach nearly 1 million users by the end of this year, compared to its current usage base of 100,000 customers, the firm’s business development director Juan De...
Our world is exploding with new connected devices designed to simplify and improve modern living – connected cars, smart homes, wearables and even objects like toothbrushes and umbrellas. The rise of the “Internet of Things” – smart objects and machines connected and controlled via...
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