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Mobile M2M connections on the up
Tuesday, May 06 2008
by Patrick Kelly


Cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) connections are set to rise
by more than a third in the next four years, analyst Berg
Insight predicts, driven by rollouts of vehicle telematics.

The number of mobile network connections used for M2M comms
will grow from 37.5 million in 2007 to 186 million in 2012,
says the analyst. But the analyst predicts vehicle telematics
-- aka wireless vehicle comms tech -- apps will dominate the
M2M cellular market in most parts of the world, accounting
for more than half of all network connections by 2012.



Tobias Ryberg, senior analyst at Berg Insight, said safety
and security concerns are driving the automative industry
towards "massive rollouts of telematics".



He said in a statement: "In North America, OnStar already
gives peace of mind to millions of drivers. Europe is well on
the way to introducing the eCall automatic emergency call
system and several Latin American countries are considering
mandatory tracking devices on all new cars to combat epidemic
vehicle crime."



Berg Insight said GSM and legacy technologies currently
dominate the market, accounting for about 71 percent of the
total number of active connections at the end of 2007. CDMA
was the second largest tech -- strong in North America and
parts of Asia-Pacific, while WCDMA has so far primary been
adopted for M2M apps in Japan.





Natasha Lomas writes for Silicon.com.

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