How are the billions of dollars of investment in mobile networks going to be fully recouped if indeed consumer mobile marketplace growth is slowing? The answer to that question will undoubtedly continue to play out in the years to come but one common prediction is that more focus will be placed on innovative M2M “connected devices”.

Today, operators are looking down the barrel of the same kind of growth opportunities with M2M connected devices; very reminiscent of TDM’s exploitive grown in the late 90’s. How the carriers will start to measure up domestically and globally, will largely depend on how quickly they react to market forces, and vet products that clients will readily deploy.

To respond to Federal market requests, equipment manufacturers have developed cellular wireless (M2M) solutions for managing core network assets Out-of-Band (OOB). The mindshare behind this evolution is that since OOB access is infrequently used by definition, the wireless connection may well provide substantial price benefits to the user over implementing a traditional POTS-centric network for remote access.