{"id":10450,"date":"2017-10-06T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devopsonline.co.uk\/?p=10450"},"modified":"2017-10-06T16:02:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T15:02:37","slug":"vodafones-iot-boss-moves-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devopsnews.online\/vodafones-iot-boss-moves-sprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone’s IoT boss moves to Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"
Internet of Things (IoT) boss at Vodafone, Ivo Rook, has moved to US telco Sprint, to boost its commercial IoT networks.<\/p>\n
Rook spent the last seven years at Vodafone as the phone company\u2019s chief executive in IoT division.<\/p>\n
According to The Register<\/em>, he now aims to become Sprint\u2019s senior vice-president.<\/p>\n Rook said on IoT matters: \u201cMy focus will be on developing secure IoT solutions for our business customers and all people who want to make the best of the digital revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n Tom Rebbeck, IoT research director at analyst firm Analysys Mason, added to The Register<\/em>: \u201cSprint has struggled in the shadow of Verizon and AT&T in the US IoT market.<\/p>\n “Both Verizon and AT&T will earn US$1billion from IoT in 2017; Sprint much less. Sprint has also been slower to roll out.\u201d<\/p>\n Written by Leah Alger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Internet of Things (IoT) boss at Vodafone, Ivo Rook, moves to US telco Sprint, to boost its commercial IoT networks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":10451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[462,2129,111,2128,1989],"yoast_head":"\n