Strategy and Business Innovation for Connectivity and Digital Economy Markets

Amazon opened 2022 with announcements targeting the smart home community that is forming around the Matter protocol and opportunities for I...

This review of 2020 corporate initiatives in the IoT market builds on a history of tracking strategic industry developments for over a decad...

I delivered a presentation some weeks back at an online conference for the managed-services industry. My talk was about the implications of...

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...

My last post examined the direction that several MNOs are taking with their IoT strategies [1]. Applying these trends at an industry level, ...

Over the past few weeks, there have been several commentaries about IoT strategies for mobile network operators (MNOs), several of these exp...

A few weeks ago, I commented on a LightReading article [1] on the topic of IoT prospects for wireless operators. I received positive feedbac...

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 ...

Following several years of rapid growth, the 141 corporate initiatives in 2014 almost matched the 147 events that occurred in 2013 . In 2...

A couple of recent developments are symptomatic of how the M2M market has matured beyond device connectivity. These developments involve Tel...

A few years ago, it was standard practice to associate M2M with low data rate characteristics that could be served using 2G networks. In fac...

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

One of the implementation challenges that historically acted to restrain the M2M market is the issue of vertical-specific requirements. Each...

France’s Orange has a long history in the M2M market and was one of the early pioneers in establishing an M2M competence centre, leveraging ...

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

This note will be updated in light of new alliance announcements.  In July of 2012, seven mobile operators announced a cooperation agreem...