Internet of Things now accounts for 2% of world's cellular connections


DRIVING CHANGE: Car companies are driving the trend towards machine-to-machine internet connections. — ©AFP/Relaxnews 2014

From cars to smart meters and smart cities, there are already 195 million objects accessing the Internet via SIM cards and the figure is rising by almost 40% every year. 

In its latest report, From Concept to Delivery: the M2M market Today, the GSMA — the umbrella organisation for the world's leading mobile telecommunications networks — outlines how quickly machine-to-machine mobile Internet connections are growing as the world moves towards the Internet of Things. 

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