Below is a brief description of all the main cellular IoT Connectivity providers.
For more information, understand the technology behind IoT connectivity or read our guide to selecting an IoT connectivity solution.
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Kore Wireless
Founded in 2003, KORE is a pioneer, a leader, and a trusted advisor in IoT implementation and deployment. We can help you eliminate the time-consuming need to identify, evaluate, contract, and manage multiple network connectivity providers, equipment manufacturers, and professional services organizations as you build out your IoT solution. Along the way, we offer proven expertise and guidance that can help you maximize your IoT investments and transform IoT business performance.
Wireless Logic
IoT connectivity for any device, anywhere
A new thing, device or asset is connected to our cellular platform every 18 seconds of every day. And today, we have over 6 million IoT subscriptions active in 165 countries, with collaborative partnerships that provide reach into more than 750 mobile networks across the globe.
SIMPro, our purpose-built IoT connectivity platform connects (globally and locally) across multiple mobile networks and technologies to give customers a single management window for their assets. It provides the ultimate connectivity, control and security.
Truphone
With coverage in over 190 countries, our single global mobile network offers the most local service experience. This boosts international call and data quality – and lowers costs for you, your employees or IoT assets.
Our international multi-identity SIM seamlessly switches to operate like a local SIM – with local data speeds, call quality and costs. Uniquely with us, you have multiple international numbers on a single SIM. What’s more, our SIM integrates with eSIM.
Tata Communications IoT
Tata Communications delivers edge-to-cloud IoT solutions for your digital transformation needs through our rapidly growing global presence and extensive partner ecosystem across the entire cellular IoT value chain. It takes your smart technology platforms to the next level with scalable, secure, pervasive and reliable services. Access via an intuitive online portal enables you to make data-driven pro-active business decisions, increase productivity and fuel the growth of your business.
Tata Communications’ MOVE™ Global IoT Solution provides seamless, cross-border cellular connectivity to deliver international IoT services effectively and efficiently.
Tata Communications’ MOVE™ eSIM enables ease of inter-operability between different eSIM vendors and across multiple mobile network operators.
Sierra Wireless IoT Connectivity
Ready-to-Connect Devices Significantly Lower Total Cost of Ownership
With a tightly integrated, secure data stream from the device to the cloud, our Ready-to-Connect modules, gateways and routers simplify your IoT journey by providing instant access to Sierra Wireless Smart Connectivity. Embedded SIMs (eSIMs) pre-integrated inside Ready-to-Connect devices can be activated over-the-air anytime, anywhere, to eliminate individual device provisioning and reduce your total cost of ownership by up to 40%.
Telit IoT Connectivity
Telit OneEdge
Telit’s OneEdge Subscription Plans are industry-first IoT-as-a-service solutions that simplify and reduce the time to add IoT to your devices and services. These plans let you begin transforming your IoT investments into operating expenses and provide the cellular module, software, services and network connectivity you need to quickly and efficiently launch IoT applications, propelling you toward IoT success.
Telit OPTIMUS
You have an IoT deployment to run with little time to find the best rates, deal with roaming overages or troubleshoot device connectivity issues. Telit’s connectivity solutions offer OPEX reduction, regardless of how many IoT edge devices you’ve deployed or their data needs. You can configure individual data plan profiles based on your unique business requirements. High-volume SIM deployments might only need periodic data pings, while data-intensive use cases may require high-throughput, low-latency connectivity.
It’s time for practical accounting and billing solutions that save you time, keep your costs at bay and keep your IoT engine running on all cylinders.
- Telit OPTIMUS analyzes your data usage and assigns each SIM to the most cost-effective data plan
- Automate data plan assignments every month to ensure each product line has its share of bandwidth
- Removes operational overhead on data plan management and keeps you focused on your core business
- Avoid bill shock
Digi XBee
The world-renowned XBee module is part of a family of cellular modems and RF modules that provide ultimate flexibility for IoT application developers, with three programmable form factors, and a range of popular wireless protocols.
With Digi XBee®, you can develop robust, high-performance connected products faster and more effectively, and get your product to market on your timeline. The complete Digi XBee ecosystem includes modules, code libraries, and the award-winning tool suite, Digi XBee Tools. Together, these resources help to simplify and expedite prototyping, coding and range testing to quickly add features such as GPS services and Bluetooth connectivity, and to build in edge functionality with MicroPython. Pre-certified modules eliminate the pain and expense of certification. And whenever you need design and engineering assistance, Digi Wireless Design Services can help.
Vodafone
Our managed IoT connectivity platform gives you visibility and control of your IoT devices anywhere within our global footprint. It can track the location of any global SIM installed in an asset, alert you to unusual activity, produce reports on performance and data usage, activate new SIMs and manage them through their lifecycle.
We developed our own platform:
- Built-in integrated security and privacy from the ground up.
- We can develop the platform’s capabilities to meet your changing needs.
- Enable you to monitor and manage all your SIMs around the world
Orange
Bring connectivity to your IoT devices with a secure and high quality connectivity solution based on mobile GSM networks.
In our fast growing digital world, the Internet of Things (IoT) is expanding rapidly and is expected to reach 18 billion connected devices by 2022. Connectivity is a key enabler of IoT, allowing your devices to exchange information with centralized IoT applications. As a player in this market, you need centrally-managed connectivity for your IoT devices deployed across various geographies.
Mobius Networks
Mobius is the UKs first integrated data airtime provider. We aim to prove that, in the data world, all networks are not the same and even, all SIMs are not the same. If you are new to the concept of Machine to Machine please have a look at our Machine to Machine section. If you want to see why Mobius has a short cost chain, better control and greater accountability then Data versus Voice should help make that clear.
Pangea Group
Retail, agriculture, education, transport, healthcare—every industry out there should benefit from the efficiency, safety, and sustainability that the Internet of Things offers.
Through IoT, we’re bringing data-driven decision making, game-changing automation, and exciting new revenue streams to businesses across the planet.
Pod Group
We’re an Enterprise Network Operator (ENO). At Pod, we go beyond traditional connectivity providers to offer unique, customized solutions designed to give enterprises, both large and small, ownership and control of their IoT connectivity, from the SIM card right up to a complete private network. As an ENO, we operate our own core network, including a private LTE core which enables us to provide managed connectivity services (Network as a Service – NaaS) on both public and private spectrum.
The best of both an MNO and MVNO
An ENO combines the network control and visibility of a Mobile Network Operator (MNO) with the global reach, flexibility, and rapid innovation of a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) to bring you the best of both. Being an Enterprise Network Operator means that our network and connectivity solutions are designed solely for the enterprise. This allows us to tailor our advanced solutions to support your specific use case requirements, giving you the control and visibility to optimize your IoT connectivity for your applications, whatever the industry.
Caburn Telecom
Caburn Telecom is an innovative and leading global provider of connectivity for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. Our focus being the development of advanced mobile connectivity solutions and associated management systems.
Our SIMs, chip-SIMs and eSIMs, provide the flexibility and high service levels vital for distributed IoT devices to operate effectively.
We provide multi-network capability together with the streamlined management of SIM populations.
Our secure client portals deliver easy to use interfaces for understanding and administering the connectivity of devices. Traffic details and actual (and predicted) costs can be viewed at the group(s) and the individual level.
Our innovative and flexible connectivity packages allow IoT service providers to maximise their assets and manage the operational life-cycles of devices.
Com2M
With our experience and expertise in the “Internet of Things” we develop and operate solutions with real additional value. We combine individual consulting with elements of our IoT construction kit and modern cloud offers. In this way we ensure a high degree of individualisation with a focus on specific business models, with the shortest possible development times.”
IoT & M2M SIMs – local and global
We work with you to select the right solutions and commercial structure based on the specific requirements of your application – ensuring that your devices communicate securely and reliably.
Precise solutions depend on factors from location to data usage, and whether the device is static, mobile, local, or international. We also consider the deployment scale and duration as well as the importance of being ‘always on’, which can be essential for mission-critical applications.
1nce
1NCE is the global Tier-1 IoT Carrier specialized in providing managed connectivity services for low bandwidth IoT applications such as Asset Tracking, Tank Monitoring, Vehicle Telematics, Smart Metering and Waste Management.
1NCE cooperates with the leading operators in order to guarantee Tier-1 carrier grade connectivity services across Europe as well as in North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
Emnify
EMnify makes connecting things simple. With cloud-native technology and a single IoT SIM for worldwide use, we help B2B companies eliminate communication silos, streamline IoT operations, and build innovative applications. https://www.youtube.com/embed/eIdTUTjJ1oA?feature=oembed
Novacom/CLS Group
With a presence across five continents, the CLS Group develops and operates innovative telematics solutions. Created from the merger of Novacom Services and its parent company CLS in 2019, CLS fleet management solutions have been providing geolocation services for more than 15 years to professionals in numerous sectors: humanitarian work, transport and logistics, waste and environmental management, services to local authorities, specialist and customised fleets, export services and key accounts, etc.
Stream Networks
Founded in 2007 by Matt Shanahan, a telecommunications and cloud entrepreneur. Matt’s vision was to build a state of the art communications and cloud network designed specifically for business. The aim of the network was to deliver best in class network security, improve business resilience and provide a clear return on investment.
This state of the art network, combined with an exceptional customer care focus, has seen the business thrive.
Today, we are still just as passionate about our business and our network. Although we have grown in size, exceptional customer service still forms the very fabric of our business.
Our business solutions encompass SD-WAN, MPLS & VPLS private networks, direct Internet access, IoT MOBILE solutions, along with cloud telephony, security and enterprise cloud computing.
ARM Pelion (Stream Technologies)
Global cellular connectivity including LPWA available on a single Pelion IoT SIM.
A Pelion IoT SIM gives you the flexibility to connect to the best network for your deployment, with a choice of standards and comprehensive global coverage.
Connect all your devices across regions, networks or standards with one SIM.
Evalan
Our IoT solutions:
- We work together with customers on solutions that optimally meet their questions and wishes. These projects start on the initiative of a customer, to solve a problem or improve a process. During the realization, we can often use existing IoT modules from our portfolio, which we adapt to measure. If that is not possible, we create completely new IoT solutions. We help our customers to establish the specifications, develop and certify the solution and can then manage or transfer it operationally.
- We work on technological improvements that are important for IoT, in R&D projects with partners. With this technology we create new solutions for the IoT market, such as modules or complete end-to-end solutions. These are often offered under their own brand name. Examples are Sensemedic , SensiStep , bGrid and SmartEagle .
Manx Telecom
Global Solutions is a Division of Manx Telecom that is focused on building the business, by accessing growth opportunities in the Telecoms market, beyond the Isle of Man.
They leverage Manx Telecom’s high-quality mobile network infrastructure, telecoms engineering expertise, and global roaming agreements with other mobile network operators, to provide global cellular connectivity to IoT and mobile service providers, in the UK and other international markets.
With over 4 million SIM cards supported around the world, they have deep experience and an established presence.
But with the GSMA forecasting that the IoT market will expand to 25 billion connected devices by 2025, there is continued and significant scope for growth.
eseye
Our role is to guide you through the complexities of IoT and show how to unlock its full potential.
Eseye empowers businesses to embrace IoT without limits. We help them to visualise the impossible and bring those solutions to life through innovative IoT cellular connectivity solutions that enable our customers to drive up business value, deploy differentiated experiences and disrupt their markets.
We deliver innovative IoT cellular connectivity solutions, versatile hardware, and technical consultancy and round-the-clock support that steer all industry verticals from their initial concept through to global deployment.
Our pioneering technology allows businesses to overcome the complexity of IoT deployment and develop, deploy and manage IoT projects without the fear of getting it wrong. We guide them every step of the way. Supported by our unique AnyNet Secure® SIM technology, Connectivity Management Platform and a powerful partner ecosystem, we help more than 2,000 customers globally to seamlessly connect devices across 190 countries, agnostic to over 700 available global networks.
Hologram
One global IoT SIM
Deploy to new countries or with new hardware technologies all through the same Hologram global IoT SIM to streamline your IoT deployments.
Breadth and Depth of Coverage
Keep devices connected in the field with Hologram’s network of networks and automatic carrier switching to the best signal available in each country.
Flexible pricing with no contracts
Pricing that automatically scales with you. Discounts start at just 100 devices. Change your plans anytime from our Dashboard.
Hardware agnostic. Developer ready.
Use our SIM card in any hardware device and connect to any IoT cloud service. Use our powerful REST APIs to integrate quickly.
Other IoT Connectivity Management Providers
Security
ZARIOT is the world’s only SIM with signalling to cloud security
IoT security challenges span from protecting devices from being turned into malicious botnets to protecting SIM cards in a mission-critical device.
- Soracom
- Deutsche Telekom
- Arkessa (now merged with Wireless Logic)
- KPN
- Swisscom
- Telenor
- AT&T
- Itron
- Twilio
- Flolive
- BICS
- Transatel
- Accenture Public, Low power wide-area network (LPWAN) connectivity
- DMI IoT connectivity management portal
- Aeris IoT connectivity management portal
- Cubic Telecom IoT connectivity management portal
- NTT Docomo 4G LTE cellular network service connectivity
- Orbcomm IoT connectivity management portal
- Sprint IoT connectivity management portal
- Tele2 IoT connectivity management portal
- Verizon M2M-IoT device management software service
- Rogers 4G LTE cellular network service connectivity
- Xylem Local invoicing of 2G, 3G, 4G or public LPWAN connectivity at a global scale
- BASE (Telenet)
- Ideal Cellular
- Etisalat