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Scaling Cellular IoT Globally | Onomondo's Henrik Aagard and Anders Buchmann

IoT For All Podcast · 6 Sept 2021 · 37m

What this episode covers

Henrik Aagard, CTO, and Anders Buchmann, Commercial Head, of Onomondo discuss their approach to scaling cellular IoT globally. They explain how Onomondo differentiates itself by owning the network infrastructure and offering transparent, data-based pricing rather than legacy subscription models. The conversation covers the technical and commercial challenges of global roaming, the comparison between NB-IoT and LTE-M technologies, and the future of software-based SIMs and cloud integration.

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companies scaling up

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Companies
Onomondo, AWS, Google, Ericsson, Maersk
Products
IBM Watson IoT
Also
NB-IoT, LTE-M

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