Today’s markets for the provision of multi-country cellular IoT connectivity are evolving quickly, driven to a great extent by four concepts, including cloud-hosted dedicated core networks for IoT, single pane of glass (SPOG) abstraction techniques, advanced SIM management, and a focus on efficient systems and processes. Additionally, with the ongoing pressure on revenues per connection in IoT markets, all aspects of these enabling technologies have been developed with a focus on cost minimisation and efficient operations.
Using these tools, IoT-focussed cellular connectivity providers have increasingly extended beyond ‘traditional IoT’ to include services that are adjacent to IoT, such as, for instance, emnify connecting enterprise tablets, Semtech supporting Fixed Wireless Access services and Pelion supporting passenger Wi-Fi onboard trains. Further opportunities exist in the context of Mobile Private Networks (MPNs). In all of these areas, many of the IoT-domain capabilities developed by IoT-focussed CSPs put them at an advantage to vendors who are competing for the same opportunities without those IoT-domain capabilities.
In this report we analyse the adjacent markets identified above in more detail and also examine how this increasingly sophisticated IoT connectivity stack could be bought to bear on the wider enterprise mobility opportunity
