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186m connected non-phone devices by 2012
Tim Green May 6 2008, 11:18am
My fridge could soon be talking to your phone, says Berg Insight.
The Analyst firm predicts 186 million non-phone devices will be connected to mobile networks by 2012. It says the number of cellular network connections used for machine-to-machine communication will grow 37.9 per cent from 37.5 million connections in 2007.
Berg found that machine-to-machine applications currently represent between one and three per cent of mobile subscribers in developed markets.
In Sweden and Finland it’s 10 per cent due to extensive use of GPRS for meter reading applications.
However, this will change radically, with vehicle telematics applications driving the sector – in both senses of the word.
