Swisscom and Ericsson develop M2M market
Swisscom and Ericsson have launched a partnership to develop the M2M market. Swisscom will offer enterprises, from different industries both in Switzerland as well as Swisscom customers abroad, services to leverage efficiencies along their customers' value chain from production to distribution. The first trials will start in February 2012. The commercial introduction of services is scheduled for the summer 2012.
Urs Schaeppi, Head, Swisscom Corporate Business Unit said, "We are entering this partnership– in which Ericsson supports us not only with its M2M connectivity platform, but also with its extensive experience of the worldwide M2M market- with the clear ambition not only to be first in an emerging market, but also to provide our customers with the kind of superior offering they are used to from us. Our ambition is to provide enterprise customers with a scalable, easy-to-configure-and-maintain, telecom-grade solution that helps them to leverage the full potential of their M2M connectivity and gain a competitive advantage."
Anders Runevad, Head -Region Western & Central Europe, Ericsson said, "We have built out our leading position as an M2M solution provider to operators worldwide and now we are partnering with Swisscom in one of the world's first large-scale M2M market introductions. We have connected billions of people to date with mobile networks. Now we are starting to address the Networked Society with our vision of more than 50 billion connected devices primarily from M2Mconnectivity in all kinds of industries - by 2020 worldwide."
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