Telenor Group recognised as a global leader in managed IoT connectivity services by Gartner

For the last three years Telenor has been recognized by Gartner Inc in the Magic Quadrant for Managed IoT Connectivity Services, Worldwide. We believe that, as a result of Telenor’s accelerated IoT strategy across its Nordic and Asian operations, Telenor Group is recognized in the Leaders quadrant for this year’s report.

Telenor has been assisting both local and global clients in putting innovative IoT solutions in place together with a network of partners for more than two decades, with offerings composed of managed connectivity, managed IoT cloud platform and analytics.

“To us, being positioned as a Leader in this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed IoT Connectivity Services, Worldwide is a fantastic achievement. We believe this is the result of the targeted and joint efforts on IoT within the entire Telenor Group. We see continued satisfaction from our customers on the excellent customer services we provide, and we believe this is a key reason for our IoT position.”, says Lars Thomsen, Head of IoT, Telenor Group.

Companies in the Gartner Magic Quadrant are assessed by their ability to execute and completeness of vision. The assessment criteria for ability to execute included evaluating the product/service, overall viability, sales execution/pricing, market responsiveness/record, marketing execution, customer experience, and operations. Criteria for completeness of vision included market understanding, marketing strategy, sales strategy, offering (product) strategy, business model, vertical/industry strategy, innovation, and geographic strategy. Magic Quadrant for Managed IoT Connectivity Services, Worldwide was previously called Magic Quadrant for Managed M2M services, Worldwide.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Managed IoT Connectivity Services, Worldwide, Pablo Arriandiaga, Eric Goodness, Leif-Olof Wallin, Jonathan Davenport, 12 December 2019.

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