Vodafone Germany and multinational conglomerate Thyssenkrupp together aim to equip in excess of 1 million elevators worldwide with SIM cards in order to carry out predictive maintenance and reduce downtime.

Telefónica has teamed up with Huawei to build a suite of data analysis tools for enterprises undertaking digital transformation programmes.

Telia has taken part in a $17.5 million funding round for location data specialist Unacast, whose founders helped set up the TIDAL music streaming service now owned by Jay-Z.

Telefónica is bringing its IoT and data analysis technologies to agricultural development projects through a new partnership with a United Nations agency.

Telefónica hopes to improve the experience of its mobile customers after signing a global deal with network testing and analytics company Tutela.

Nokia has added analytics to fixed networks as it bids to help operators anticipate and solve outages in the network before they impact service quality.