Telefónica Deutschland / O2 Business Democratizes IoT Market With Extremely Affordable Prepaid IoT Tariff
With its new IoT prepaid tariff O2 Business Easy IoT, Telefónica Deutschland / O2 is driving the digitalization of the German economy and society by making IoT connectivity affordable for a broad market. o2 iot
Cheaper than comparable tariffs: O2 Business Easy IoT prepaid tariff makes battery-powered long-life sensor networking economically attractive for businesses – price differences of up to 250 percent.
“I am convinced that our new O2 Business Easy IoT prepaid tariff portfolio makes infrastructure sensor networking extremely attractive for companies due to a simple tariff structure and an outstanding price-performance ratio,” explains Karsten Pradel, Director B2B at Telefónica Deutschland. “Combining a fully available NB-IoT machine network with the new loT prepaid tariff, we are giving the growing Massive loT market in Germany a major boost and are significantly driving digitalization for the benefit of business and society,” Pradel added.
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Telefónica Deutschland / O2 is expanding its loT tariff portfolio: The new O2 Business Easy loT prepaid tariff complements the already well-known loT Connect tariff.
O2 Business Easy loT provides companies with an easy-to-administer tariff that is especially designed for loT applications with low data transmission requirements and very long usage periods.
With O2 Business Easy loT and NB-IoT, application scenarios ranging from consumption data collection (e.g., of water, heating, or gas), condition monitoring (e.g., air quality), or status messages (e.g., parking space occupancy or fill level in garbage containers) to intelligent early warning systems that measure water levels or water damage in buildings can be implemented. Thanks to the predefined price-performance structure and simple handling, the networking of battery-powered sensors with O2 Business Easy loT is economically calculable in advance and technologically easily scalable.
With O2 Business Easy loT, Telefónica Deutschland / O2 focuses on the essentials for simple networking of loT sensors and devices. Depending on the selected tariff, customers receive a data package for a one-time fee of 10 euros per SIM card, which they can use flexibly over a period of 10 years. The data volume is usually sufficient for the entire lifetime of the device. O2 Business Easy loT is available in three rate plans:
The O2 Business Easy loT tariff model supports various radio technologies (2G, 4G, NB-IoT and, from December 2021, LTE-M) to connect a wide range of IoT industry solutions and a variety of devices. The prepaid advantages such as one-time payment, no monthly basic fee and no administrative efforts such as individual invoice bookings make handling and planning with O2 Business Easy loT very easy for companies.
Data packages can be rebooked easily and flexibly online for 10 euros per SIM card if required, in case the purchased data volume is used up before the device lifetime expires. To administer the connectivity of the O2 Business Easy loT tariff, customers have free access to the multiple award-winning IoT platform Kite (Essential) for simplified management of the loT SIM cards.
