Four months ago, Tord Nilsson, Director of Global Marketing at Dell EMC and I penned a blog to appear on TelecomTV, expanding on Tord’s thoughts on one of the important ways telcos should be approaching IoT. (see – Is there scope for a ‘customer first’ Telco IoT Alliance?)
Tord was convinced that telcos could join together and play the responsibility card on Internet of Things. The proposition would be: that the telco IoT business is not just about mining data, it’s about being the customer’s data custodian and, if instructed, its broker.
It’s the sort of business approach that meshes with the telco idea that end-users are more likely to see telcos as potential trustworthy partners, ‘on the make’ gadget-sellers less so.