Vodafone’s vision for third-party developers to use its APIs to help them build new products in
Internet of Things areas such as smart cities, smart energy, and smart health, according to Lester Thomas, group chief systems architect at Vodafone.
As envisioned, Vodafone will provide the scale, the capacity, and the end-to-end operations to enable the new products and will enter into revenue-sharing arrangements with third-party application developers.
That is a switch from much of the earlier thinking by tier-one telcos about working with developers.
Much of the early activity was focused on consumer market apps, particularly for voice, messaging, location, and billing.
The new focus seems to be on business-to-business apps, or business-to-business-to-consumer. That is one reason a number of tier-one service providers are supporting a set of application program interfaces (APIs) that simplify the process of creating and supporting applications running on telecom networks, developed with the TM Forum.
Axiata, Bharti Airtel, BT, China Mobile, China Unicom, NTT, Orange, Telefonica and Vodafone have formally adopted the suite of digital service management APIs put together by TM Forum.
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