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Machine-to-Machine Communications: Connecting Billions of Devices

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This document examines the future of machine-to-machine communication (M2M), with a particular focus on mobile wireless networks. M2M devices are defined, in this paper, as those that are actively communicating using wired and wireless networks, are not computers in the traditional sense and are using the Internet in some form or another. While, at the global level, there are currently around five billion devices connected to mobile networks, this may by some estimates increase to 50 billion by the end of the decade. The report provides examples of some of the uses to which M2M is being put today and its potential to enhance economic and social development. It concludes that to achieve these benefits, however, changes to telecommunication policy and regulatory frameworks may be required. Some of the main areas that will need to be evaluated, and implications of M2M assessed, include: opening access to mobile wholesale markets for firms not providing public telecommunication services; numbering policy; frequency policy; privacy and security; and access to public sector information.

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  • Oecd, 2012. "Machine-to-Machine Communications: Connecting Billions of Devices," OECD Digital Economy Papers 192, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:stiaab:192-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5k9gsh2gp043-en
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    1. Malecki, Edward J., 2017. "Real people, virtual places, and the spaces in between," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 3-12.
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    3. Clarke, Richard N., 2012. "Expanding mobile wireless capacity: The challenges presented by technology and economics," 19th ITS Biennial Conference, Bangkok 2012: Moving Forward with Future Technologies - Opening a Platform for All 72529, International Telecommunications Society (ITS).
    4. Günter Knieps, 2017. "Internet of Things, future networks, and the economics of virtual networks," Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, , vol. 18(3-4), pages 240-255, September.
    5. Clarke, Richard N., 2014. "Expanding mobile wireless capacity: The challenges presented by technology and economics," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 38(8), pages 693-708.
    6. Antonio MANZALINI & Roberto MINERVA & Vânia GONÇALVES, 2012. "Halos Networks: A Competitive Way to Internet of-with Things," Communications & Strategies, IDATE, Com&Strat dept., vol. 1(87), pages 41-55, 3rd quart.

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