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M2M – the big picture

Now that we have nearly finished connecting everyone and are serious about connecting everything, the analysts are in full ‘prediction’ mode. How big the M2M market will be in two, five or fifteen...

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Old fashioned billing will drive electric cars

One of the big barriers to electric cars taking off – or at least driving off – is lack of charging stations. They are few and far between and finding them and planning your journey accordingly is a...

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Cars will go a Roaming

Once you start putting SIM cards in cars you are going to start to roam. Not only will M2M roaming produce almost as many puns as the cloud does, but it too will require serious consideration by many...

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M2M Business Opportunities

Presented at the ETIS Billing Working Group 19 April 2012.   M2M for slideshare View more presentations from BillingViews

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Billing in Bern

Talking to operators about billing is completely different to talking to anyone else about billing. Journalists are hugely influenced by the press releases and the reports they receive, full of...

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The Real Place for NFC

The industry is divided on whether NFC is the cornerstone of mobile payments, or something much bigger. BillingViews decided to ask the decision makers.   NFC Infographic publish

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M2M revs up

Douglas Adams, the Writer (capitals intended) and inventor of the Hitch Hikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, was interviewed in 2000. During the interview, he said that we had made computers to fit into rooms,...

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TelecomTV | Seven major operators form global M2M partnership

Interesting development in the M2M world, or at least the connectivity piece. It will be interesting to see how many telecoms companies will venture into the unknown world beyond connectivity, with so...

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A Stack of Stats – Part 2 M2M software market is BIG, says ABI Research

The $1.7 Billion M2M Software Market Sees Developers Increasingly Out-Sourcing Core Functionality | Press Release | ABI Research.

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M2M is Big, but Who will Make the Money?

There was a focus on M2M at the recent ETIS Gathering in Athens. We agree that the market is about scale but we still cannot quite see where the opportunities lie. The now famous statistic that by 2020...

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Video: How Will M2M, Cloud, and Connection Management Work?

IMS research claims that there will be more than 326 million cellular M2M connections globally by 2016, up from about 107 million today. For that to happen though, M2M has to play well with all that’s...

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DOB, QoS and BoBO – Billing for Non-Telco Services

We recently examined the potential revenue opportunities of Direct Operator Billing (DOB). It is clearly not the only strategy for ‘replacing’ the revenue lost due to OTT erosion – but potentially a...

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Connected Cars Are a Great Concept – but also Hackable

Nowadays you don’t need a crowbar to break into a car. All you need is a laptop and some clever software. The effect will be the same – or worse, depending on how evil the hacker is feeling. While it...

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The Dangers of Backup Cameras in Connected Cars

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M2M is not a market – and very complicated

New research from Infonetics forecasts that the ‘M2M’ market will triple in size between now and 2017. They predict it will grow from around $15 billion in 2012 to $31 billion in 2017 – passing $20...

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Jim Morrish from Machina Research talks M2M

Telcos are having to reach outside their traditional markets for growth. M2M is an option. It typically doesn’t use a lot of data but it involves a lot of new relationships and this could be a...

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Who do you trust in a world of digital disruption?

 Or, perhaps, how do you trust in a world of digital disruption? We have been saying for some time that the winning currency in the coming months and years will be trust. The question is – who do...

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The machines are taking over and communications holds the key – in a good way.

In the communications industry we tend to look at life from the inside out. We look at the Over the Top (OTT) players invading our territory and consider them enemies until we consider how to ally with...

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Home becomes HoT spot for IoT

The home front has become the new battlefront to capture the hearts, minds and dollars of the connected generation. The battle to own the customer is definitely shifting to who owns the home because it...

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The journey from control to context –‘are we there yet?’

There is something incredibly interesting about researching and writing a report on a topic that is ‘front and centre’ of people’s minds. It is like taking a snap shot of an industry, of collecting all...

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