Exploring IoT Strategies: telecom service providers pursue multiple paths to IoT revenue

Study participants believe in the potential of IoT and describe new cellular IoT technologies as game changers. 70 percent of service providers interviewed do not have a well-defined strategy, instead they are testing alternative roles within the IoT value chain. 80 percent of interviewees aim to create value beyond connectivity either by providing differentiating services or by becoming IoT service enablers or service creators.