Telenor Connexion has been chosen as the European connectivity supplier for Renault’s sophisticated telematics services available on new Renault electric and fuel vehicles.

Following the success with Nissan LEAF, ”European Car of the Year 2011”, the Renault Nissan Alliance has selected Telenor Connexion as its European supplier of connectivity for Renault’s new electric and internal combustion car models as well. The first new electric vehicles to be connected are Kangoo ZE, Fluence ZE and the first ICE vehicles connected will be Kangoo and Master.

Telenor Connexion’s dedicated connectivity solution helps Renault’s sophisticated onboard unit connect to theRenaultGlobalDataCenterin a private network environment allowing Renault to provide its end customers with a wide range of services and information. This is made possible by seamless communication via cellular mobile networks in all of Europe, plus Russia and Turkey. Renault’s onboard unit uses the embedded SIM technology from Telenor Connexion partner Sierra Wireless, which allows for more robust, durable and better integrated connectivity in an automotive environment.

The main features for electric vehicles include helping end customers to optimize the autonomy of their electric battery by making it possible to check the battery status either by phone or computer. Electric vehicle owners will be able to spot the charging locations available and to plan a trip until destination. In addition, the telematics solution will offer subscriptions for optional services such as remote diagnostics, fleet asset management, road assistance, insurance telematics, and more in future.

“Telenor Connexion truly supports innovation in M2M and is the first mobile operator able to provide a reliable and secure connectivity solution with an embedded SIM solution for mass deployment in the automotive market. Other determining features of Telenor Connexion’s telematics solution are their global coverage, their proactive service awareness and their dedicated Service Portal to facilitate the management of connectivity”, says Ms. Claude Deulniau, IT Purchasing Manager at Renault.

“The agreement with Renault, one of the world’s largest car companies, underlines Telenor Connexion’s position as the leading global M2M connectivity provider in automotive telematics. We are very proud to be part of the Renault-Nissan electric vehicle program, which is the largest ever launched and to support the company’s ambition to be the world leader in zero emissions”, says Rémi Demerlé, EMEA Sales Manager at Telenor Connexion.

For more information, please contact:

Service Presse Renault, tel. +33 1 76 84 63 36

Kristina Grandin, PR and Communications, Telenor Connexion
kristina.grandin@telenor.com, +46 734 25 26 21

About Renault
Renault was founded in France more than 110 years ago and has since developed internationally. Today it has over 30 production sites and 18,000 business sites (subsidiaries, dealerships and agents) in 118 countries. Renault designs, produces and sells a broad range of vehicles, including from 2011 a range of electric vehicles accessible to all that embodies the company’s commitment to the environment. With its zero-emission* range and new generation of internal-combustion engines, Energy, Renault is aiming for leadership in low CO2 emissions, which it plans to reduce from 135 g/km today to less than 120 g/km in 2013 and under 100 g/km in 2016. Renault is also characterized by innovation for all, top-level product and service quality, and renewed vehicle design. The company is pursuing its strategy of profitable growth with associate brands Dacia and Renault Samsung Motors and strategic partner AvtoVAZ. Renault has a workforce of 121,000 worldwide. In 2010 it reported revenues of €38,971 million and sold over 2.6 million vehicles. Renault also relies on its partner Nissan as part of the Renault-Nissan Alliance to respond to the challenges stemming from the internationalization of markets. The Alliance is based on major synergies in product strategy, platforms, powertrain components and purchasing and takes advantage of the complementary geographical fit between the two manufacturers. The Renault-Nissan Alliance signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Daimler in April 2010 notably concerning A segment and powertrain projects.
* in use, excluding wear parts 

About Telenor Connexion
Telenor Connexion is the leading provider of premium M2M solutions for business and life critical applications, regardless of the vertical market. Building on more than 10 years of M2M experience, Telenor Connexion provides customers with tools that allow for full control of status, location and performance of their connected devices. Telenor Connexion has provided reliable, international M2M solutions to a number of global customers such as Volvo, Nissan, Daimler, TomTom, Omron, Scania, Qualcomm Enterprise Services, Hitachi and Securitas. The company was established in 2008 and originates from the successful M2M business within Telenor Sweden. Telenor Connexion is wholly owned by Telenor Group, one of the world’s major mobile operators.
For more information please visit www.telenorconnexion.com

OnStream, a National Grid company, provides gas and electricity metering solutions across the UK. The company’s new mobile communications-based  meters enable low levels of power consumption and include the ability to communicate with smart appliances leading to the formation of the smart grid.

Telenor Connexion, the world leader in premium M2M solutions for business and life critical applications, has been working alongside OnStream for over 24 months, providing the connectivity for the new OnStream smart meters. The collaboration for the smart metering roll-out in the UK included development and extensive piloting in multiple markets.

“Connectivity will be a key element to success in the smart roll-out and therefore, Telenor Connexion, renowned for their coverage and reliability, was the logical choice for the future commercial roll-out of our smart metering offering. We selected Telenor due to their consistent and proactive support as well as their high level of technical knowledge and operational flexibility”, says Keith Hawkins, Strategy and Smart Development Manager, OnStream.

“OnStream’s high quality solution will play a part in the development of smart metering deployment in the UK over the coming years. The new connected smart meters are significant in the development towards making smart grids a reality”, says Dean Woods, Head of Region UK & Ireland at Telenor Connexion.

“We are delighted to be working with OnStream, who share our commitment to providing the highest levels of customer service and innovative energy solutions in an efficient, reliable and safe manner, says Per Simonsen”, CEO at Telenor Connexion.

At the European Smart Metering Awards earlier this year OnStream was awarded both “Metering Manufacturer & Technology of the Year” and “Innovation of the Year” for their connected smart meters.

OnStream has already installed more than 95,000 smart meters in homes and businesses throughout the UK and National Grid plays a vital role in providing energy to millions of customers across Great Britain and the Northeast US. 

For more information, please contact:
Liz Blackwell, Marketing and Brand Lead, OnStream
elizabeth.blackwell@uk.ngrid.com

KristinaGrandin, PR and Communications, Telenor Connexion
kristina.grandin@telenor.com, +46 734 25 26 21

About OnStream
OnStream offers smart metering services aimed at improving service provision and reducing environmental impact. The company provides a flexible and professional range of meter management services to UK energy suppliers. To date, OnStream has installed in excess of 3 million gas meters and 1.7 million electricity meters. OnStream is a National Grid company, one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the world. National Grid plays a vital role in providing energy to millions of customers across Great Britain and the Northeast US in an efficient, reliable and safe manner. www.onstream.co.uk

MyDrive Solutions offers advanced risk management solutions for automotive insurers. The company has signed an agreement with Telenor Connexion, the leading provider of premium M2M solutions, to supply global connectivity for its unique insurance telematics solution MyDrive Dynamic.

This new solution enables motor insurance companies to use driving behavioural data to assess the risk presented by individual drivers, and price motor insurance premiums accordingly.

MyDrive is unique in the way it matches GPS data from drivers – taking a snapshot every second – to the underlying map of the road. A connected “Dynamic Drive Recorder (DDR)” placed in the car collects vast amounts of data and transmits it back to the insurer’s data systems. The solution not only measures whether the driver was on a three-lane motorway or country road, but also whether he or she was approaching a junction or navigating a tight corner. Understanding the context of a driver’s actions shows how safe an individual’s driving style is, thus enabling the insurance company to assess the actual risk very easily and very accurately and price that risk accordingly.

The embedded connectivity solution provided by Telenor Connexion is a premium M2M solution with an integrated eSIM allowing for MyDrive’s insurance solution to be marketed and actually deployed globally from the outset.  Telenor Connexion provides a real time managed solution giving MyDrive unrivalled visibility to the connectivity of their devices wherever the may be in the world.

“Predominantely we choose Telenor Connexion due to the company’s deep expertise in M2M. Their experience of machine-to-machine and particularly in the telematics field is unrivalled. The flexibility, both technical and commercial, and the integration capabilities together with the Service Portal offered made them the obvious choice for this business and life critical solution”, says Linden Holliday, CEO at MyDrive Solutions.

“MyDrive brings an innovative and entirely unique solution to the insurance sector. With its behavior-based system, which provides a more accurate way of assessing risk, MyDrive is way ahead of the market. Insurance telematics will change the industry for good and we are excited to be part of this exciting development”, says Dean Woods, Head of Region UK and Ireland at Telenor Connexion.

Whilst most other companies rely on 30-second snapshots of a car’s progress, along with registering any exceptionally high levels of braking or acceleration, MyDrive analyses every single second of the driver’s journey. Combined with GPS data, the solution contextualises every decision each driver makes by mapping it to the road network, thus providing a far more accurate picture.

For more information, please contact:
Will Gardiner, itpr
willg@itpr.co.uk, +44 1932 578 800

Kristina Grandin, PR and Communications, Telenor Connexion
kristina.grandin@telenor.com, +46 734 25 26 21

About MyDrive Solutions
MyDrive is a rapidly growing company providing the ability to understand the skill levels of a car driver in undertaking the extremely complex task of driving a car on the UK’s congested road network. We monitor driving behaviour on a second-by-second basis, and deploy industry leading analysis to determine exactly how capable the driver is, in real time, and on an ongoing basis. Importantly, we have a European patent (pending), protecting our unique ability to contextualise individual behaviour to the road network. In short, this allows us to understand the road topography that the driver is interacting with, and therefore to understand what the driver should be doing at all points on the road, to determine the propriateness of their driving (e.g. is the driver approaching a road junction at too high a speed, or cornering at an inappropriate speed?) This information can be utilized in many ways, from self-improvement to achieve better fuel efficiency, to proving driving capability, and therefore risk profile, to an insurance company, to a parent ensuring that their child is driving in a safe and sensible manner. Our key focus is the insurance industry. Until now, insurers have been forced to consider risk on the basis of proxies for behaviour, since it has hitherto been impossible to actually observe behaviour. There is statistical validity in using such proxies, but this is based on averaging a pool of drivers; there are many drivers who share the
pooled characteristics (occupation, age, marital status etc) but who do drive in a different manner to that pool. Our capability allows the insurer to largely ignore the “old proxies”, and focus instead on what is really important, which is how the driver drives, not how the statistics suggest he ought to drive. www.mydrivesolutions.com

According to Berg Insight estimates, the number of cellular network connections worldwide used for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication will reach 294.1 million connections by 2015. While the demand continues to grow for both business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) applications, the important thing to note is that they require varying deployment criteria and significantly different approaches. The crucial point is that B2B applications are not just for convenience, they are many times business and life critical.

Telenor Connexion, a world leader in premium M2M solutions for business and life critical applications, today shares a few of the many key factors for businesses to consider when deploying a premium B2B M2M solution. If these factors are taken into account, the deployment results in reliable, flexible, efficient and cost effective M2M services for the customer, as well as the end user.  Telenor Connexion offers all of their customers, together with partners, the opportunity to receive M2M Quality Program consulting during the design, implementation and operational phases of launching an M2M or Telematics Service.  It is one of the ways Telenor Connexion differentiates themselves as an M2M connectivity provider

“Our proven customer record, and over a decade of experience in delivering premium M2M solutions, allows us to know what it takes to deliver a successful B2B M2M deployment,” says Per Simonsen, CEO of Telenor Connexion. “With this knowledge companies can deploy their M2M solutions right the first time and reap the important benefits M2M has to offer.”

The following key factors, are some examples of what is needed for a successful deployment of business and life critical M2M applications:

Optimizing traffic and terminal behavior
It is essential to ensure that the terminal and application are optimized to carry the necessary traffic and minimize signaling etc.

Ensuring terminals are handling over-the-air (OTA) upgrades and reset mechanisms correctly
Sometimes M2M terminals are not performing correctly due to network outages, unplanned upgrades, system overload, etc. and it is not possible to physically reset the terminal to fix the problem. To ensure quality of service, it is crucial that the solution can be remotely managed over-the-air and have inbuilt reset mechanisms.

Handling redundancy and failover mechanisms
Especially in the case of B2B, it is extremely important to make sure that if the primary system fails, the M2M communications can continue uninterrupted through proper handling of redundancy and failover mechanisms.

Catering for load peaks in traffic and signaling
Heavy network loads can have a significant impact on the quality of service. Ensuring that the traffic load is properly catered to, even during peak times, eliminates network disturbance and ensures reliable communication.

Controlling traffic effectively with trigger alarms
Early detection and notification of malfunctioning or improperly used devices is mission-critical for a B2B M2M deployment. Trigger alarms are designed to immediately notify a customer, or even automatically deactivate the subscription, depending on the set threshold alarms.

Increasing reliability and coverage with multi-operator support
Providing multi-operator support in a B2B M2M deployment ensures that if the primary operator fails, a back-up operator’s network is immediately available for reliable M2M communications.

Professional and specialized service desk
Customer access to a specialized and proactive M2M service desk is essential in the case of needed troubleshooting an M2M solution.

Telenor Connexion is sharing these keys to successful deployment of business and life critical M2M applications at CTIA Enterprise & Applications, and promoting their M2M Quality Program in booth 554.

Telenor Connexion today announced that it has been selected global supplier of embedded connectivity by Amelti, a  manufacturer of industrial engine and vehicle fuel and emissions monitoring and management systems. The premium M2M solution is intended for Amelti’s flagship SmartFeeder product line, an aftermarket product designed to reduce and track fuel consumption, automate additive dispensing, minimize emissions and provide fleet management provisioning.

The SmartFeeder fuel additive injection system is engineered to track diesel fuel usage, vehicle or vessel activity and exhaust emissions – all in real-time! The embedded connectivity and dedicated service portal from Telenor Connexion  enables the SmartFeeder systems to be monitored and controlled remotely, allowing for automatic adjustment of fuel additive dosing to optimize engine performance and fuel economy.

“With more than 10 years of developing communications solutions in the global M2M market, Telenor Connexion was the obvious connectivity partner for the global deployment of our intelligent SmartFeeder systems. The company shows a unique combination of extensive knowledge about M2M and the automotive industry. The reliable solution provided by Telenor Connexion is backed up by outstanding customer support and an advanced technical platform”, says Roger Kronborg, CTO at Amelti.

“The contract with Amelti is of significant importance to us. Telenor Connexion is proud to be part of Amelti’s innovative and ecologically beneficial SmartFeeder solutions. We support Amelti’s vision of becoming a global leader and their  efforts in fuel efficiency and emissions reduction technologies”, says Henrik Rosell, Regional Sales Manager at Telenor Connexion.

Major companies in shipping, transportation, navy & military, power generation and other industries are using Amelti solutions to make their businesses more profitable, more efficient and cleaner.

For more information, please contact:

Roger Kronborg, CTO
info@Amelti.com
Europe: +47-9511-9611
North America: +1-206-275-3262
Middle East: +961-71-958-951

Kristina Grandin, PR and Communications, Telenor Connexion
kristina.grandin@telenor.com, +46 734 25 26 21

About Amelti
Amelti Development AS is based in Norway in the city of Horten with regional offices in Seattle, USA and Beirut, Lebanon. It is a private company that manufactures and markets a comprehensive multifunction system under the SmartFeeder trademark to add, monitor and control fuel additives, fuel consumption, exhaust emissions and usage for vehicles, shipping vessels and industrial engines. The company has developed and applied for proprietary patent pending technologies worldwide. For more information about Amelti and its technologies, please visit the company website at www.amelti.com.

Telenor Connexion, the world leader in premium M2M solutions for business and life critical applications, today announced it has been selected by Sector Alarm, a provider of security and safety for residential homes, as its supplier of wireless connectivity for home alarms and security systems in the Netherlands. With customer service support available 24 hours a day, Telenor Connexion’s M2M wireless solutions enable Sector Alarm to offer its customers faster, more secure, real-time alarm system communications.

The wireless security system delivers increased flexibility for the end user, offers increased options for placement of the CPU and eliminates visible wires. Customers can also know that the system will not have any impact on their telephone and broadband Internet access. Completely wireless, Telenor Connexion enables Sector Alarm security systems with protection from lightning and power issues, which means that customers will be secure from theft, tampering and environmental issues, such as storms or power outages.  

“We view wireless solutions as the most secure, reliable and easy to apply for multi-national deployments. At Sector Alarm we are committed to delivering the best in industry technology to our customers in order to support their existing and future needs. Telenor Connexion provides us with a premium solution and a 24×7 customer support that gives us confidence in using wireless connectivity. Our partnership makes it possible to grow and move forward towards our long-term goal of becoming the leading company for home alarms in Europe”, says Leif Motrø, Technical Director at Sector Alarm.

“We are very excited about this relationship and the future opportunities it presents. Sector Alarm is expanding its market presence, and therefore needs a reliable product. We are also pleased with the confidence Sector Alarm displays in our business and life critical solutions. Being a fully integrated part of alarm systems poses high and specific demands on our technical solutions to provide instant real-time communications”, says Henrik Rosell, Regional Sales Manager at Telenor Connexion.

Sector Alarm is a global company with Scandinavian origins. The company protects over 130 000 households with home alarms and home security systems in Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.

For more information, please contact:
Leif Motrø, Technical Director, Sector Alarm
leif.motro@sectoralarm.com, +47 91 31 98 00

Kristina Grandin, PR and Communications, Telenor Connexion
kristina.grandin@telenor.com, +46 734 25 26 21

About Sector Alarm
Sector Alarm is a provider of security and safety for private homes. Sector Alarm currently has 130 000 private customers and is the second largest player in the Swedish market for alarm and security in private homes. Since its establishment in 1995, the company has evolved and is today the second largest alarm company in the Nordic countries. Sector Alarm is growing rapidly and now has operations in Sweden, Norway, Holland and Spain. Sector Alarm has a long-term goal of becoming the leading company for home alarms in Europe. www.sectoralarm.com

Stepac, a leading global supplier of real-time cold chain monitoring and tracking solutions to the fresh produce industry, has developed the Xsense solution specifically for perishable foods. The solution, which contains Telenor Connexion’s embedded connectivity, allows the receiver of temperature-sensitive goods to know immediately, before accepting the shipment, if products have remained at the proper temperature for the entire trip.

The Xsense solution works in real-time mode, providing vital information about produce quality from inside the carton or package. It contains temperature and relative humidity sensors, which collect and transfer data by wireless communication to a communication unit (CU) via standard mobile and/or LAN networks. Data is available in real time throughout the shipment and alerts can be sent via SMS or email. GPS tracking lets you view the geographic progress of the shipment as well.

“The partnership of Xsense and Telenor Connexion highlights a growing trend of wireless innovations occuring in business and life critical solutions. Everyday, billions of dollars of temperature-sensitive goods are transported from one location to another. By using wireless connectivity it is now possible to seamlessly monitor the entire cold chain from end-to-end in real time, thus providing an accurate picture of the treatment of goods in transit and enabling true asset management,” says Gwenn Larsson, CMO at Telenor Connexion.

“To wirelessly monitor the temperature of shipments as they travel along the cold chain – and the world – has a large impact not only on the quality of the produce, but also on the financial success of our customers. The return on investment of cold chains depends mainly on the reduction of food waste. However, improved efficiency such as implementing First Expired First Out (FEFO) management, can potentially also save millions of dollars annually”, says Udi Aviran, Commercial Manager at Stepac.

The Xsense solution has been purchased, in the fresh produce and the meat industry, by more than 200 customers all over the globe.

For more information, please contact:

Udi Aviran, Commercial Manger, Stepac
Udi@stepac.com, +972 52 4312062

Gwenn Larsson, CMO, Telenor Connexion
Gwenn.larsson@telenor.com , +46 734 25 26 36

About Stepac and Xsense®
In the fresh produce industry since 1995, our global sales and support teams have gained intimate knowledge of cold chain logistics. Through the development and marketing of  our Xtend®modified atmosphere/modified humidity packaging for the fresh produce industry, we identified an unmet need for real time monitoring of temperature and relative humidity from inside produce cartons.
To meet this challenge, we developed a new concept in cold chain monitoring: Xsense™, a comprehensive program that enables cold chain stake holders to make critical decisions about their perishable products in real time. Xsense monitors the quality of perishable items, as dictated by temperature and humidity, during all stages of the cold chain—from palletization in the packing house to arrival at retail outlets.
StePac LA Ltd. is a part of DS Smith Plastics, a division of DS Smith Plc.
For more information visit: www.coldchainquality.com and www.stepac.com

Telenor Connexion, the world leader in premium M2M solutions for business and life critical applications, today announced the expansion of its business development team in Japan and Malaysia to meet the growing demand for M2M services in the Asian region.

The Tokyo office established in 2010 is now expanded with a local team. Mr. Kentaro Ohshida has been appointed Account Liaison Director and contact point for the Japan office. Mr. Ohshida brings extensive experience from a major Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer, where he served for almost a decade as a strong interface with multinational-based customer accounts.

Telenor Connexion is additionally appointing Mr. Thomas Strandin as Head of Sales for the Asia Pacific region. Mr. Strandin has worked with B2B sales within the telecom industry for more than 10 years. His experience and contributions in the wireless sector span from security and smart grids applications to mobile health, and other industry verticals.

“The appointment of Mr. Ohshida and Mr. Strandin is part of Telenor Connexion’s continued geographic expansion initiative to increase our presence in key growth markets. Mr. Ohshida’s expertise in the region and strong technical and sales competence will further strengthening our local presence and support business growth”, says Per Simonsen, CEO at Telenor Connexion. “The extensive experience and industry-specific knowledge Mr. Strandin brings, will strongly contribute to the company’s continued success in the region”.

The expanded presence in Japan and South East Asia will allow Telenor Connexion to increase its level of proactive service awareness to customers and partners across Asia and deliver advanced value added services.

Telenor Connexion already serves a number of key customers in Asia with world-class premium embedded connectivity solutions, spanning multiple vertical markets such as automotive, asset management and security. Examples of customers applying the company’s business and life critical applications to achieve cost savings, flexibility and improved services are Nissan and Hitachi.

Telenor Connexion is wholly owned by Telenor Group, one of the world’s major mobile operators. Telenor serves more than 100 million mobile subscribers in Asia and a total of 301 million subscribers worldwide.

Italy-based Octo Telematics specialises in the provision of telematics services and systems for the insurance and automotive market. Through its technological platform, which includes an in-vehicle monitoring device and its multiservice center, the company offers a unique range of services including usage-based insurance, driving behavior and mileage reporting, safety and security services, crash management, road assistance and real-time traffic monitoring.

The embedded connectivity behind these business and life critical services is delivered by Telenor Connexion, the leading provider of premium M2M solutions. The agreement enables Octo Telematics to use one standardised connectivity solution for multiple markets including an online service portal and APN/VPN.
“We decided to select Telenor Connexion as our partner because of the company’s broad experience, its commitment to innovation and their proactive service approach. These three things ensure a high level of reliability in our offering as we deploy in Europe and the Americas”, says Federico Santini, COO at Octo Telematics.

“We are delighted to partner with such a major player as Octo Telematics. With more than a million active subscribers and more than 50 insurance partners worldwide, Octo Telematics is the forerunner and market leader in telematics applications for auto insurance”, says Per Lindberg, Global Business Development Executive Automotive at Telenor Connexion.

With the recent launch of its North American operations, Octo Telematics can now offer its comprehensive range of vehicle telematics solutions to the considerable U.S. automotive insurance market.

For more information, please contact:
Harald Trautsch, CMO, Octo Telematics
harald.trautsch@octotelematics.com, +39 (06) 7265341

Kristina Grandin, PR and Communications, Telenor Connexion
kristina.grandin@telenor.com , +46 734 25 26 21

About Octo Telematics
Octo Telematics is an advanced Telematics Service Provider (TSP) that provides services and systems to the insurance and automotive markets. With more than one million active customers and the largest insurance telematics statistical database in the world, Octo Telematics is the global leader in the research, development and management of cutting-edge telematics applications for auto insurance. Its services have achieved widespread acceptance, most recently adding an average of over 1,500 new customers each day and connecting with more than 50 different insurers worldwide. Octo Telematics was founded in Rome in 2002 and operates internationally today with offices and partners throughout the world. For further information, please visit: www.octotelematics.com

Telenor Connexion, the world leader in premium M2M solutions for business and life critical applications, today announced the expansion of its executive team in North America to meet the growing demand for M2M services in the region. 

With the M2M market continuing to grow at a significant pace, Telenor Connexion expanded its business development team in the Americas with the addition of George LeBron, Head of Market Development, and Marcus Rodrigues, Technical Sales Manager. Telenor Connexion’s newest team members will continue to build on the company’s established successes with customers such as Volvo, Nissan, Tom Tom, General Electrics and Securitas.

The expansion further strengthens the company’s position in the M2M, telematics and wireless markets, as well as supports strong growth in vertical markets such as healthcare, automotive and insurance and asset management. Through the company’s unique proactive service awareness solution, customers in these markets will have full control of status, location and performance of connected devices, while enjoying highest level of customer service awareness and response.

“Telenor Connexion has a proven record in delivering reliable, future-proof and dynamic M2M solutions that deliver cost savings, flexibility, efficiency and improved services,” said Fredrik Åkerlind, Head of Regions Americas. “With LeBron’s expertise in the region, Telenor Connexion will further explore new opportunities and provide new and existing customers with world-class premium embedded connectivity solutions for business and life critical applications.”

LeBron brings more than 20 years of international wireless experience to Telenor Connexion. Prior to joining the company, LeBron served as Vice President of sales for the embedded wireless technology division and the wireless network services division at a leading M2M MVNO. He also held key positions at one of the industry’s top global wireless module OEMs, Wavecom Inc., including General Manager for Latin America. His experience and contributions in the wireless sector date back to 1991, and span from mass wireless consumer applications to automotive telematics, mobile health, and other industry verticals.

Rodrigues is seasoned professional with more than 11 years of experience in the telecommunications and IT business. He recently served as Senior Sales Engineer and Senior Solutions Architect at MFormation Technologies, Inc. His previous employers include Worldcell where he worked as Business Development Manager and Network Operations Engineer, Delphi Automotive and LogicaCMG.

Both LeBron and Rodrigues will report to Fredrik Åkerlind, Head of Sales Region Americas, located in California.

For more information, please contact:

Kristina Grandin, PR and Communications, Telenor Connexion
kristina.grandin@telenor.com , +46 734 25 26 21