Last week saw the conclusion of the auction for India’s 5G spectrum with the biggest spenders being Jio splashing $19 billion, Airtel $5.4 billion and Vodafone $2.4 billion.  According to this piece in Reuters, “India's government aims to begin the rollout of 5G by October this year” with India’s News18 website reporting that:

“5G will do much more than significantly improve your network connection. It will bring the possibility of having billions of devices gathering and sharing information in real-time to tackle some of the most pressing issues of the world.

This piece in IoT Tech News caught the eye of the Brits in our IoT Connectivity team.  It discusses how the UK Government is turning to technology to help diagnose and treat the COVID-created backlog of National Health Service (NHS) patients needing attention – and how IoT is already “enabling better healthcare solutions and services”.

“Connected Cars Are Just As Revolutionary As Electric Vehicles” says this article in Forbes magazine - and our IoT connectivity experts strongly agree!

The secret lives of shipping containers is a subject of fascination for our team of maritime connectivity experts who are focused on bringing at-sea and nearshore connectivity to these essential cogs in the global supply chain.

SIMs are one of the favourite topics of our team of global connectivity experts and we have shared our thoughts about physical SIMs, eSIMs and iSIMs in a few earlier blogs:

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