Transatel, a subsidiary of NTT group, has unveiled its worldwide 5G IoT services platform for industry verticals, with a first activation in France.
Available on its global IoT connectivity platform, the 5G service will expand from France to Belgium, Japan and the US in “the coming weeks”, said the firm. It will then be extended to other territories.
For the French launch, Transatel chose French mobile operator SFR to deploy 5G with IoT MVNOs (mobile virtual network operators). With the technology, SIM and eSIM compatible PCs, tablets and routers will support data-intensive applications with “reliability” and low latency across industries, said Transatel.
With the offering, the vendor is targeting edge and artificial intelligence-based applications, such as video content analysis, push-to-talk, autonomous robots and vehicles.
Transatel says its SIM and eSIM cards are already embedded in more than 3m devices around the world. Many of these however will not be able to connect to the new network.
Transatel has its own telecom infrastructure and access agreements for 2G, 3G, 4G, LTE-M and now 5G, negotiated directly with hundreds of mobile network operators around the world,
“This flexibility and independence from operators allows Transatel to meet its customers’ coverage and quality of service requirements all over the world, regardless of their industry, their devices or their business applications,” says Jacques Bonifay, CEO of Transatel.
