Global Industrial IoT Services Update: What New Capabilities Were Launched by Operators Over the Last Six Months?

K. Weldon

Summary Bullets:

• GlobalData has completed its profile updates on IoT services for AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, Orange Business Services, and Tata Communications, along with a Competitive Landscape Assessment.
• IoT services are viewed as a major growth market by these operators, with both 5G and LPWANs providing new opportunities, global alliances extending footprints, and new services and end-to-end vertical solutions providing value to enterprises.

Every six months, GlobalData updates a set of global industrial IoT services profiles for Tier 1 mobile operators headquartered in the U.S., Europe, and – starting this year – the APAC region. The complete report, which includes links to the profiles as well as a discussion and analysis of trends and new offerings in the market, can be found here.

Face Payment Means Never Having to Open Your Wallet

J. Marcus

Summary Bullets:

• Telia and the digital labs of bank OP Financial in Finland have been working on adding ‘face payments’ to the Pivo payments app.
• To be successful, 5G adoption may or may not be needed, but consumer acceptance of facial recognition technology will.

Retail is about separating people from their money, and recently, we’ve been seeing how advances in payment systems technology could soon separate innovators in the financial sector from laggards. At Telia, the Nordic telco’s engineers are putting its brand-new 5G network to use in combining these two innovation tracks for what may seem inevitable: face payment.