LTE in Public Transportation: four key roles

Data services outside the traditional handset and dongle are often termed M2M (Machine-to-Machine) by carriers; it’s a market that has been overlooked until recently, but now presents a serious revenue opportunity for connecting the ‘Internet of Things’ from gas meters to cash machines and video cameras to trucks, buses and trains. According to researchers Rethink, in 2010 data revenue to carriers from connected ‘things’ like these grew by 55% in the US and about...