Strategy and Business Innovation for Connectivity and Digital Economy Markets

The VW Golf and Audi TT share a common platform, as do Chevy and GMC SUVs. The foundations for these automotive platforms are, firstly, cr...

Many years ago, while working on the GSMA’s “Beyond M2M” strategy , an M2M service provider described their service offering to manage offic...

How is North America affecting policy change and industry competition? The participation of White House and Congressional speakers at 6G Wor...

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

Over the past few years, the World IoT Day movement [1] has drawn considerable attention to the opportunities presented by IoT technologies....

Much has changed over the last 10 years that I have published this annual review of corporate initiatives in the IoT sector. I do not track ...

The analyst firm, Transforma Insights (TI), recently published a report comparing the cloud hyperscalers – Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web...

A couple of recent and seemingly unconnected publications provide food for strategic thought on the topic of IoT platforms.  Platforms are a...

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

A few weeks ago, I spoke at the Connected Cities Privacy Summit (CCPS) in Washington DC. This was a 'first of a kind' event foc...

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

A few weeks ago, the UK mobile operator O2 decided to shut down it smart home business [1]. O2 stated that it had not seen "category-l...

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...

The motivation for this article comes from several recent and groundbreaking announcements relating to the commercialization of consumer dat...

I recently participated in a debate, hosted by the IEEE Communications Society, about the pros and cons of IoT standardization. My debating ...

A couple reports published in recent weeks have touched on the topic of the IoT developer community. The first one, from Vision Mobile [1], ...

The mobile industry and users of its services are very familiar with the concept of roaming. Roaming allows users to access mobile services ...

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

Last month, I was invited to chair a panel for the eponymously named company, Apigee. Although it was billed as an API event, Chet Kapoor (A...

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...