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Virgin Media and Vodafone strike new mobile deal

Virgin Media has agreed a five year deal with Vodafone UK to bring innovative new services, including 5G, to more than three million mobile customers and provide further flexibility to grow its mobile operation. (more…)

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November 6, 2019

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Westermo acquires the Irish company Virtual Access

Westermo, a business entity of the Beijer Group, has acquired 100% of Virtual Access Limited, an Irish-based technology company specialising in wireless industrial routers and gateways, and managed connectivity services for customers in the utility, traffic management and telecommunications sectors. (more…)

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November 1, 2019

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Thingstream supports LTE-M (Cat-M1) radio tech for low cost, global, low power connected devices

Thingstream, a global low-power MQTT network provider, now supports the LTE-M (Cat-M1) radio standard as part of its end-to-end ‘MQTT Anywhere’ Connectivity-as-a-service offering. (more…)

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October 30, 2019

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Alibaba expects security, performance and compatibility will drive growth of Bluetooth mesh for smart home ecosystem

Ru Yi, general manager of Alibaba A.I. Labs Smart Device Department, talks to Jeremy Cowan, editorial director & publisher of IoT Now about the future of smart homes. (more…)

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Posted by: Anasia D'mello

UK home automation market grew 14% in 2018

Still considered to be in the early, high development growth stage, the UK home automation market has doubled in size between 2014 and 2018 according to a report recently published by AMA Research(more…)

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October 28, 2019

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Vodafone UK opens London digital hub and reveals that 5G could boost London’s economy by £30 billion

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan opened Vodafone UK’s new digital hub, as new research shows that 5G could provide a multi-billion pound boost to the capital by 2030. (more…)

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October 25, 2019

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Switching off 2G: New report for UK SPF highlights the potential impact of switching off 2G networks in the UK

While the UK has started the deployment of 5G networks, the older 2G networks will inevitably face switch-off (or ‘sunsetting’ as it is known in some countries) at some point. This is despite being relied on by the elderly, users in rural locations and numerous machine-to-machine (M2M) applications, such as many smart meters. (more…)

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October 23, 2019

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Semtech’s LoRa devices create an efficient monitoring solution for reducing energy consumption

Semtech Corporation, a supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, announced that IHM Pacific, a developer of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for the smart utilities, and Andrea Informatique, a consultancy firm specialising in new technology and software design, (more…)

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October 22, 2019

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Sierra Wireless Octave now available, unlocking data from millions of industrial assets

Sierra Wireless, the IoT solutions provider that combines devices, network and software to unlock value in the connected economy, announced general availability of the Octave all-in-one edge-to-cloud solution for connecting industrial assets to the cloud. (more…)

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October 17, 2019

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

US and UK consumers indicate early appetite for 5G but need info, says CCS Insight survey

Consumers in the US and UK have high awareness of 5G technology, and many take a strong interest, but services need to be better positioned and the benefits more clearly explained if 5G is to take off rapidly. (more…)

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Posted by: Anasia D'mello