{"id":32351,"date":"2013-02-26T10:11:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T08:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=32351"},"modified":"2013-02-26T10:32:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T08:32:38","slug":"vodacom-talks-up-machine-to-machine-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/32351\/vodacom-talks-up-machine-to-machine-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom talks up machine-to-machine plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Vodacom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1639-Vodacom\">Vodacom<\/a> says it aims to increase its market share in the machine-to-machine connectivity space, by leveraging off its parent company, <a title=\"Vodafone\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1662-Vodafone\">Vodafone<\/a>, and playing in markets outside of South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The group effectively blurred the lines between its operation and that of its parent company, Vodafone, as it intends to leverage its global reach, network, and research and development within the M2M space.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco\u00a0predicts that some 25 billion\u00a0devices\u00a0will be\u00a0connected\u00a0by 2015, and\u00a050 billion\u00a0by 202<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom says its global M2M Platform provides authentication, access control, usage management and information on any Vodacom Global SIM on any Vodacom or Vodacom M2M roaming partner network, anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The platform will enable businesses to manage and administer M2M deployments such as vehicle tracking, fleet management, electronic metering, asset tracking and remote operations on a local, regional, and global scale.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom says it will also look north of the border, into African markets, noting that it did not necessarily have to be a mobile network operator to provide M2M solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The group said it would take a \u201cbroader option of service delivery\u201d, as previously, Vodacom only provided the SIM.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom said it will increase it\u2019s spend on end device testing and accreditation, and will also provide end devices (terminals) of its own.<\/p>\n<p>Contracts for its M2M platform will be offered on a month-to-month basis.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Vodacom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Get ready for the mobile data boom \u2013 report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/27219\/get-ready-for-the-mobile-data-boom-report\/\"><strong>Get ready for the mobile data boom \u2013 report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Internet four times larger by 2016: Cisco\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/14199\/internet-four-times-larger-by-2016-cisco\/\"><strong>Internet four times larger by 2016: Cisco<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why Vodacom should buy TopTV\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/31911\/why-vodacom-should-buy-toptv\/\"><strong>Why Vodacom should buy TopTV<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom says it aims to increase its market share in the machine-to-machine connectivity space, by leveraging off its parent company Vodafone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1358,26,5245,27,737],"class_list":["post-32351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-cisco","tag-headline","tag-m2m","tag-vodacom","tag-vodafone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32351"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32358,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32351\/revisions\/32358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}