Also in today s EMEA regional roundup: Salt claims fixed-line Internet speed record; T-Systems offers cloud migration program; MTN teams up with Mastercard for mobile money.
Vodafone is testing a new precise-positioning technology that it envisages playing a major role in the coming era of autonomous vehicles. The technology, based on Vodafone s global IoT platform, works in partnership with Sapcorda s network of Global Navigation System Service (GNSS) receivers to remotely track moving objects bearing a built-in SIM within 10 centimeters of their location, be they cars, drones or cargo. The new technology (official name: Precise Point Positioning Real Time Kinematics), says Vodafone, will complement its existing asset tracking and fleet telematics offering already used by the operator s business customers across 54 countries.