MTN, leading Africa’s Mobile Network Operator (MNO) has entered into a partnership with Eseye and the AnyNet Federation, a new association of MNOs, both parties said in a statement.
The partnership aims to make the complex global landscape for IoT easier for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers, by delivering a single cellular Machine to machine (M2M) solution that can be deployed seamlessly across major world markets
Oliver Fortuin, MTN group enterprise executive said “MTN is delighted to bring its networks across 12 markets to support the objectives of the AnyNet Federation. We believe that through collaboration, we can speed up the deployment of our customers’ global IoT and enhance their global business opportunities”.
The AnyNet Federation will initially focus on delivering significant global growth of cellular services onto Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. It aims to make the complex global landscape for IoT easier for AWS customers, by delivering a single cellular M2M solution that can be deployed seamlessly across major world markets.
‘This is a ground-breaking global collaboration”, Nick Earle chairman & CEO said Eseye. “The AnyNet Secure is already the most feature rich and integrated connectivity solution for AWS, and the AnyNet Federation as a key way of delivering simplified connectivity on a global scale, whilst allowing customers buy and manage their connectivity from within AWS”.
Using Eseye’s next generation, fully eUICC compliant AnyNet Secure for AWS SIM card, AnyNet Federation member customers will experience “out of the box” connectivity that integrates onto AWS IoT Core and is globally scalable.
AnyNet Federation partners based on the geographic location of IoT devices that are automatically provisioned and certified over-the-air. Regardless of which AnyNet Federation partner is delivering the data, the customer is billed through their account by AWS, and the MNO is paid for the services it delivers.
The launch of the AnyNet Federation and its initial AWS market focus comes as Gartner forecast the Worldwide Public Cloud Services Market will grow by 17.3 per cent in 2019 to total $206.2B, up from $175.8B in 2018; and Statista state that 80 per cent of enterprises are both running apps on or experimenting with AWS as their preferred cloud platform.
MICHEAL ANI
