Verizon has announced that certified IoT devices can now access their 5G network. The network is available via compatible data plans in Verizon’s ThingSpace IoT Marketplace.
Two major reasons. First, the 5G promise is slowly arriving. Devices can go right on the internet, not requiring a network infrastructure beneath them.
Second, marketplaces. This is one of Jay McBain at Forrester’s big themes, how the delivery of services in marketplaces is changing the industry. Well, here is an example of how it is happening. Want to put your device on the internet in this manner? It takes a marketplace.
Evolutionary steps on the changes predicted. The predicted future isn’t here, but it moved just a step closer with this.