M2M and IoT Blog by Larry Bellehumeur

As leaders in this new M2M market, we need to ensure that we don’t push the envelope of doing ‘what is cool’ without first factoring in the implications. That's the essence of my recent guest blog post on M2M Now. Take a read...  

I received a call recently from a financial analyst looking for information on the M2M space.  We were talking about how profitable the growth is in this space, and it got me to thinking...... We all talk about the explosive growth in the world of M2M, but....is  anyone making money now? To get the pulse on […]

M2M - The Industry There is an important reason why I didn’t title this blog post, “The death of private radio networks is upon us” or “Why your business will fail if you don’t get off of your Private Radio Data Network".  The reason is simple.....they are far from dead and they are still very […]

Submitted by Larry Bellehumeur on October 29, 2013 - 9:24am M2M - The Industry I remember the old joke well....”What does PCMCIA, as in PCMCIA cards, stand for?”  The joke was that it stood for “People Can’t Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms”, and there was a lot of truth to that.  While it is not quite as bad in […]

It is that time of the quarter again….companies are putting out their quarterly results.  In the case of the wireless world, many of us go through and look for key metrics as to how these companies are doing. Aside from some of the usual metrics (ARPU, churn rate, subscriber growth), I like to follow what […]

You may ask, “Ok, after dozens of blog posts talking about all of the reasons why people should use an M2M solution, why are you now writing a blog post that says what an M2M solution does NOT do?”  While there is some truth to that statement, I see it a bit differently, in that […]

I was forwarded a great article the other day.  It talks a lot about some trends in the technology industry, and it made me feel all warm and fuzzy that we are involved in some of the areas that we are. Here are some thoughts: PCs are so yesterday With a projected drop of 6% in revenue […]

I clearly remember when I first started in what is now called the M2M space, back in the 1990s.  You can imagine how difficult it was to explain to people exactly what I did.  Keep in mind, the idea of using cellular networks for anything other than voice calls was quite unique and very much […]

I have to thank our Marketing guru, Carolyn, for the inspiration on this one.  She shared with me one of the most unique presentations I have ever seen on the topic of marketing.  I encourage you to watch this Slideshare presentation... The idea is simple....if you market like it is 1970, 1990 or even 2003, you […]

**Update on September 20th** - It was kind of fitting (based on my previous article) that Jessie, Hank and Gomez used the GPS co-ordinates from Walt's phone to track his location.  If Hank would have used the same technology before on Gustavo Fring, the show would have been much shorter and not nearly as exciting!! […]