Strategy and Business Innovation for Connectivity and Digital Economy Markets

In the mobile industry, some developments are just inevitable. It’s only a question of time before the right mix of technologies, demand, an...

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

With almost no industry untouched by blockchain-mania, what opportunities does the technology hold for the mobile industry? Recognizing the ...

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...

Looking back over notable, M2M/IoT corporate initiatives in 2017, mobile network operators (MNOs) and technology vendors were the two most...

Last week, I attended ETSI's IoT Week, an annual event to explore the IoT standardization landscape and to see how industry and academic...

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...

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 ...

It’s amazing to think that Twitter recently turned ten years old. This milestone came on the heels of a rumored, CEO-level assessment [1] of...

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

Having worked on the topic of M2M value chain structures in 2012, a couple of relevant market developments caught my attention over the past...

2013 as a whole was another year of strong corporate activity in the M2M market. A total of 147 events easily surpassed the 115 events that ...

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 ...

Over the past few weeks there have been a couple of thought provoking developments in the mHealth market. The first event was the withdrawal...

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...

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...

The role of telecommunications service providers in the M2M market is typically associated with the provision of wide-area data connectivi...