Vodafone’s Multi-Million Market NB-IoT Deal is, Well, Pretty Massive

<p>For this vignette of a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Part of the 5G Factor series, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer explore the mobile ecosystem implications of UK-based Vodafone’s preparing to announce the largest IoT airtime supply deal outside of China, encompassing millions of NB-IoT connections.</p> <p>Their discussion highlighted:</p> The deal, with a yet unnamed manufacturer, breaks the million-mark threshold on connection volume, and it’s the beginning of what they see as large OEMs coming to market, and this is purportedly the first market to be built only for IoT. How the v...