IoT services: How telcos can lead the future

Essential telcos continue to explore new business-building initiatives as a way of tackling market commoditisation. Despite this, over the last seven years there has only been a 28% growth in total shareholder returns, says Mark Wass, strategic sales director, UK and North EMEA at CloudBlue.

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New ambient computing from Wiliot to enable the massive IoT

San Diego, 22 September 2022 – Wiliot, the Internet of Things provider whose IoT platform is enabling trillions of “things” to gain intelligence, will premier its breakthrough ambient computing technology the Wiliot IoT Pixel to the telecommunications industry at MWC 2022 from September 28 through September 30 at Wiliot Booth #W2.1138.

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Telit FN980 5G series modules now certified for Verizon c-band spectrum

Irvine, Calif., 21 September 2022 – Telit, a global specialist in the Internet of Things (IoT), announces that the company’s FN980 5G module series FN980 and FN980m have received C-band certification from Verizon. Based on the new 3GPP Rel. 15 standard, the 5G modules enable bandwidth intensive IoT applications including high-definition (HD) surveillance video and

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Berg Insight says global cellular IoT connections grew 22% to reach 2.1bn in 2021

Gothenburg, Sweden. 15 July 2022 – A new report from the IoT market research firm Berg Insight says that the global number of cellular IoT subscribers increased by 22% during 2021 to reach 2.1 billion. The major regional markets China, Western Europe and North America grew similarly during the year as the world recovered from

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Hands up who’s making money in 5G? And who’s not?

A WEEK IN IoT – 5G is starting strong, says Huawei. The company’s deputy chairman, Ken Hu, told its annual Mobile Broadband Forum (#MBBF) in Zurich, Switzerland last week that 5th Generation mobile communications “arrived faster than expected,” and that there are now 40 carriers in more than 20 countries supporting 136 different 5G-enabled devices.

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Diversity and sensitivity – the business of antenna design, from Taoglas perspective

If there’s one often overused – and sometimes abused – word that sums up the last few decades of human history then it’s diversity. Advances in transport and communications technologies have brought widely different people, places, ideas and cultures into close proximity with one another. Moves from mass manufacturing to just-in-time techniques have also driven

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Verizon to expand into mHealth, cars and home automation as it buys Hughes Telematics for US$612m

New York and Atlanta, USA. June 1, 2012 – Verizon Communications Inc. and Hughes Telematics, Inc. today announced a definitive merger agreement under which Verizon will acquire Hughes Telematics, Inc. (HTI) for $12.00 per share in cash, or a total of $612 million. The transaction will expand Verizon’s capabilities in the automotive and fleet telematics

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