The study included a Competitor Leaderboard, which assessed IoT vendors against a set of key indicators to derive their relative positioning in the matrix.
These included a vendor’s capacity and capability, their product positioning, size of their operations, financial performance and the sophistication of their IoT roaming solution.
The Competitor Leaderboard ranked Vodafone Business, Tata Communications, TNS, BICS, Syniverse, and iBasis as the six leading IoT roaming vendors.
The research also found harnessing AI to detect permanent roaming connections is key to distinguishing services of leading vendors from their competitors. By enabling accurate identification of permanent roaming IoT connections, vendors will support operators in monetisation of these devices.
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