TeliaSonera joins the M2M Roaming Pact with FT and DT

TeliaSonera has signed the cooperation agreement with France Telecom-Orange and Deutsche Telekom to increase the quality of service and interoperability for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. The goal is to provide enhanced M2M service quality with roaming across networks and borders.


The agreement, which initially was signed by France Telecom-Orange and Deutsche Telekom in February 2011 to cover France, Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg, has since added The Netherlands and most recently the UK through Everything Everywhere to its purview. The global footprint will now extend to cover TeliaSonera's geographical reach, including Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Estonia and Lithuania.


"With this agreement, now three groups are significantly pushing the boundaries of the M2M ecosystem," said Anne-Marie Thiollet, executive vice president Enterprise Line of Business, Orange Business Services. "Global availability and reliability will spur the commercial adoption of M2M services and stimulate new innovations to the forefront. We are happy to welcome TeliaSonera as a member of our partnership and look forward to other carriers joining us in this endeavor; only by working together can we make the great promise of M2M a reality."http://www.teliasonera.com