Strategy and Business Innovation for Connectivity and Digital Economy Markets

Two investment themes bookended 2023. In January, the European Union backed a $100m venture capital fund, managed by Momenta Partners. In De...

The turn of the year has triggered many people to reflect on what they were doing 10 years ago. With that in mind, I looked through my track...

IoT Analytics, the German market research firm, recently published a customer satisfaction assessment of IoT platforms [1]. It covers 50 ven...

Compared to previous years, the pace of corporate activity in the IoT arena has settled down. This is to be expected in a maturing market cy...

Over the past few weeks, AT&T and GE have featured in the news because of issues connected to their IoT business units. AT&T seems...

Mobile operators, it would appear, remain captivated by connectivity solutions. Most recently, low-power technologies (e.g. LoRA, NB-IoT, Si...

Over the past few weeks, McKinsey [1] and the World Economic Forum (WEF) [2] have weighed in on the debate about long term growth prospects ...

Corporate activity in the M2M/IoT market continues to grow in line with the roughly 30% growth rate that many market analysts forecast for...

Do mobile operators and M2M service providers have a role in the emerging IoT market? This is a hot topic in corporate boardrooms, industry ...

Several news stories have circulated over the past few weeks in connection with the potential acquisition of Nokia’s mapping business, HERE....

This article was commissioned by Telit Communications PLC and appeared in telit2market magazine, February 2014 The IoT phenomenon has sup...

Almost 10 years ago, Amazon formed a team to work on a groundbreaking, highly integrated consumer product. Amazon began with a goal of impro...

The 2014 CES show is currently generating a lot of consumer technology related press-headlines as different corporations reveal their stakes...

Early in 2012, I completed a study for the GSM Association (GSMA) on the topic of new business models that would be linked to innovative, co...

Over the first half of 2013, there has been strong evidence that companies in the M2M market are continuing to implement a range of business...

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this year, AT&T announced a plan to shut down its 2G network by 2017. Th...

Late last year, in the course of some project-related research, I took a look at the home security market in the context of 'smart-home...

Among the many announcements and presentations from Mobile World Congress 2013, one that caught my attention came from Matthew Key, the CEO ...

Ericsson’s 5 February announcement to supply its M2M Device Connection Platform (DCP) in support of XL Axiata in Indonesia has prompted thi...

(published in RCR Wireless - 26 Nov 2012) A previous article in RCR Wireless magazine highlighted the topic of new M2M business m...