AT&T Picks M2M Partners

DALLAS -- AT&T*, the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, is broadening its Machine-to-Machine (M2M) services portfolio with new application integration, development, and management solutions, as well as enhanced global roaming capabilities to help companies across various industries curb IT costs, complexity and speed time to market.

"As part of our focus on enterprise mobility, we're helping to accelerate and transform M2M adoption for businesses by making every step of the process easier and faster so that our customers can seize the benefits of M2M connectivity - enhanced productivity, lower costs, and streamlined operations - and integrate them simply into existing IT systems," said Chris Hill, vice president, Advanced Enterprise Mobility Solutions, AT&T Business Solutions. "Our Advanced Enterprise Mobility Solutions group collaborates with our Emerging Devices team to enable a wireless connection for virtually any edge device."

AT&T today announced four new relationships with companies that specialize in M2M technology to offer to customers more options for development, enterprise integration and management of M2M solutions across the 1,100 total connected non-stocked devices approved for use on the AT&T network, of which over 450 are M2M devices. AT&T consultants work closely with customers to identify the right solution based on industry focus and technical requirements.

In addition, AT&T plans to extend its M2M global roaming footprint for AT&T Control Center, to increase wireless device connectivity worldwide. The AT&T Control Center, a unique service delivery platform powered by Jasper Wireless, is expected to cover roaming in more than 200 countries by the second half of 2011. Companies planning international roaming applications will benefit from the ability to enable consistent operations regardless of location by deploying AT&T M2M solutions across the globe.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T)

Axeda Corp.

Sierra Wireless Inc. (Nasdaq: SWIR; Toronto: SW)