China Mobile has signed a strategic agreement with Ericsson to cooperate on the Internet of Things(IoT). China Mobile aims to serve 200 million IoT connections this year as part of its 'Big Connectivity' strategy.
Both companies will start in-depth cooperation to manage connections efficiently, provide a consistent service to global enterprise customers and to explore new IoT markets. China Mobile will use the Ericsson Device Connectivity Platform to streamline the process for provisioning, as well as deploy services to capitalize on new business opportunities.
With the platform, China Mobile will be able to integrate resources of roaming partners and offer global enterprise customers reliable connectivity based on service level agreements, said Ericsson. Other benefits include a common and unified approach to customer portals and selection of access network.
The Ericsson Device Connection Platform which was launched in 2008 is used by more than 24 operators and supports 1,700 industry customers, claims Ericsson.
Yuejia Sha, EVP, China Mobile
China Mobile strengthens the collaboration with global leading enterprises of advanced platform, application and intelligent hardware to drive the rapid development of our industry, and provides superior applications and services to our customers.
Chris Houghton, Head of Region North East Asia, Ericsson
These types of applications will also help promote the development and deployment of 5G technology. We look forward to supporting China Mobile and developing this business while accelerating large-scale deployments of Internet of Things across the world.
