Swisscom has joined the Global M2M Association (GMA), a cooperation of seven international tier-one operators in the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) market.
Established in 2011, the GMA enables its members to offer their customers business benefits such as a globally seamless customer experience and enhanced M2M roaming services. Furthermore, the GMA optimizes inter0operability across borders through unified incident management processes, harmonized modules testing and certification procedures. The association assumes responsibility for the harmonization of markets and ensures compliance which enables quicker and improved integration into customer machines and devices. In addition to Swisscom, the other members are Deutsche Telekom, Orange, TeliaSonera, Telecom Italia, Bell Canada and SoftBank.
Alexander Lautz, Senior Vice President M2M at Deutsche Telekom and one of the founding members of the GMA, said in a written statement, “The GMA demonstrates our intention to work together more closely in the interest of our customers and the M2M ecosystem. With Swisscom, we are gaining one of the M2M pioneers whose vision for the market complements well that of the GMA.”
Gerhard Schedler, Head of M2M / IoT Center of Competence at Swisscom said, “The unified M2M connectivity management platform among GMA members allows improved and simplified processes. For instance, the status of connected products throughout the lifecycle – from production, testing, shipping and distribution to the end-user will be automatically adapted and easily manageable.”
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