Vodafone is a British multinational telecommunications company, has its headquarters in London and with its registered office in Newbury, Berkshire.Among mobile operator groups globally, Vodafone ranked fifth by revenue and second (behind China Mobile) in the number of connections (435.9 million) as of 2014.

AT&T is the second largest provider of mobile telephone and the largest provider of fixed telephone in the United States, and also provides broadband subscription television services. The company's corporate, government, and public sector clients use its conferencing, managed network, and wholesale communications services.

Deutsche Telekom AG is a German telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn. Deutsche Telekom was formed in 1996 as the former state-owned monopoly Deutsche Bundespost was privatized. As of June 2008, the German government still holds a 15% stake in company stock directly, and another 17% through the government bank KfW. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming how we live and work. With IoT solutions, you can connect and monitor assets from virtually anywhere for almost any industry, including: Automotive, Aviation, Energy, Healthcare, Transportation and Logistics, and more. AT&T IoT solutions can help you reach the bottom line faster by creating new business models, automating processes, and improving operational efficiencies. M2X Data Service is a cloud-based fully managed time-series data storage service for network-connected M2M devices and IoT. AT&T M2X provides time-series data storage, device management, message brokering, event triggering, alarming, geo-fencing, and data visualization for clients' Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) products and services.

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