As part of the initial announcement, Comcast said it had created an IoT platform to support the service. Initial returns on the trial networks deployed in Philadelphia and San Francisco were promising, and Comcast recently upped the ante. It has announced machineQ expansion to Atlanta; Baltimore; Boston; Denver; Detroit; Indianapolis; Miami; Minneapolis/St. Paul; Oakland, California; Pittsburgh; Seattle; and Washington DC. Comcast is set to take the LPWAN fight to unlicensed competitors such as SIGFOX and Senet (which also uses LoRa), as well as licensed network providers such as Sprint, Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, which will compete with LTE-M and NB-IOT offers. Comcast has the enterprise sales and support assets to be formidable in this segment, but will need to prove it can generate strong revenue in a very low average-revenue-per-device environment.
Vice President Brian Partridge leads 451 Research's mobility coverage, including the Internet of Things, Enterprise Mobility and Mobile Telecom Channels. In this role Partridge has overall responsibility for the mobility team's syndicated and custom research services. As a researcher he contributes to machine-to-machine (M2M)/Internet of Things (IoT) research along with a number of additional topics in the telecom and enterprise mobility domains.
David Immerman is a Senior Research Associate in 451 Research’s Internet of Things (IoT) Channel. He covers the smart transportation space and its various segments, including but not limited to fleet management, telematics and connected cars.
Keith Dawson is a principal analyst in 451 Research's Customer Experience & Commerce practice, primarily covering marketing technology. Keith has been covering the intersection of communications and enterprise software for 25 years, mainly looking at how to influence and optimize the customer experience.