Wireless Watch 544: Cellco model under threat on all sides

Key Issues:

• Multipeer mesh will finally go mainstream in IoT, threatening cellcos
• Microsoft Build: Nadella cuts the Windows umbilical cord at last

Comment:

• GE seeks to turn its Industrial Internet into a standard
• Femtocells to be BT’s weapon as it joins Europe’s quad play battle
• Mobile money – NFC alternatives spring up everywhere
• Diebold cardless ATM bridges gap between cash and mobile payments
• Vodafone brings M-Pesa to Europe with Romanian launch
• Xilinx brings ‘softly defined networking’ to the data plane
• Cisco pushes its own technology as alternative standard to OpenFlow
• Deja vu, but bigger claims, as Apple and Samsung return to San Jose court
• BlackBerry will not see growth and profit for a year