In this week’s podcast with the Pod Group’s Sam Colley, CEO, and Felix Ontañón, Director of Research and Innovation, we discuss IoT connectivity and the Enterprise Network Operator (ENO) strategy. They share their insights on the IoT landscape, barriers to adoption, and information about their recent acquisition by G+D.

The ENO strategy allows hardware manufacturing distributors, the companies creating the IoT projects, with the ability to be their own operator along with the benefits that come from it. Allowing companies to have more ownership and control over their project coupled with greater privacy.

Sam Colley has focused his career on working in the telecommunications sector and the M2M/IoT communications market. He joined Pod Group in 2011 and contributed to the geographic and financial expansion of the company. Since 2019 he has been the CEO and focused on developing new global markets and increasing Pod’s footprints in existing ones.

Felix Ontañón is part of the Research and Innovation department at the Pod Group, where he works heavily in IoT connectivity and creating innovative technologies to overcome connectivity challenges. He is particularly interested in LPWANs, SIM card applets, eSIM/eUICC, Edge Computing, and Artificial Intelligence for IoT and has recently led Pod Group’s Open Source Community initiatives.