BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- AT&T* and members of Bridge
Alliance have formed a long-term agreement to extend
their global connected car leadership to new territories.
Bridge Alliance is a leading group of mobile carriers in
Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Today, AT&T connects more than 11
million cars in the United States
and abroad.
Together, the two organizations expect to grow the number of
connected cars on the road.
"Teaming with members of Bridge Alliance helps simplify global
deployments with local operator networks in these regions," said
Chris Penrose, President, Internet
of Things Solutions, AT&T. "This is huge for our automotive
customers. It gives them an opportunity to access customers in
countries which collectively cover nearly 30% of the world's
population."
This collaboration sets forth the framework to extend the
geographic coverage AT&T could provide to automotive
manufacturers looking to enhance their infotainment offerings in
the growth markets served by members of Bridge Alliance. This will
help the 22 global automotive and long-haul truck brands that
AT&T works with create an improved driving experience for their
global customer base.
For the customers collectively served by Bridge Alliance, this
helps to give them access to solutions like Wi-Fi hotspots,
internet radio and live traffic. Until now, these features have
been more difficult for automotive manufacturers to implement
globally.
"Our collaboration with AT&T is based on the alignment and
integration of processes, platforms and propositions. This presents
exciting possibilities for the automotive industry, helping to
accelerate the delivery of cutting-edge connected car solutions in
our markets," said Eileen Tan, CEO,
Bridge Alliance.
Beyond better serving the needs of the auto manufacturers, this
collaboration will help bring new IoT solutions forward in the
global automotive industry.
To learn more about this collaboration, check out the AT&T
booth #4A10 at Mobile World Congress' GSMA Innovation City, Hall
4.
Follow all AT&T news at MWC at: att.com/mwc or on
Twitter @ATTbusiness.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by
subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T
brand and not by AT&T Inc.
About Bridge Alliance
Bridge Alliance is the leading mobile alliance for premier
operators and their customers in the Asia
Pacific, Middle East and
Africa. Our alliance members serve
more than 800 million customers collectively across these regions.
Our goal is to build group capabilities and create value for our
members by enabling compelling roaming services and experience,
offering multi-market enterprise and IoT solutions, and delivering
savings and benefits through leveraging group economies.
Bridge Alliance's membership comprises leading mobile operators,
including: Airtel (India,
Sri Lanka and the Airtel
subsidiaries in Africa:
Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of
the Congo, Gabon, Ghana,
Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), AIS (Thailand), CSL (Hong
Kong), CTM (Macau), Globe
Telecom (Philippines), Maxis
(Malaysia), MobiFone (Vietnam), Optus (Australia), Singtel (Singapore), SK Telecom (South Korea), STC (Saudi Arabia), SoftBank Corp. (Japan), Taiwan Mobile (Taiwan), Telkomcel (Timor-Leste), Telkomsel
(Indonesia), Turk Telekom
(Turkey), and Viva (Bahrain and Kuwait). Furthermore, Bridge Alliance partners
include China Unicom, Freemove and the Global M2M Association.
Visit www.bridgealliance.com.
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with leading entertainment, business, mobile and high speed
internet services. We offer the nation's best data network* and the
best global coverage of any U.S. wireless provider.** We're one of
the world's largest providers of pay TV. We have TV customers in
the U.S. and 11 Latin American countries. Nearly 3.5 million
companies, from small to large businesses around the globe, turn to
AT&T for our highly secure smart solutions.
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*Claim based on the Nielsen Certified Data Network
Score. Score includes data reported by wireless consumers in the
Nielsen Mobile Insights survey, network measurements from Nielsen
Mobile Performance and Nielsen Drive Test Benchmarks for Q3+Q4 2016
across 121 markets.
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