Draft BEREC Report on Enabling the Internet of Things

This draft Report presented the outcome of a BEREC survey on the state of play on M2M services by presenting the most common M2M characteristics and assessing whether M2M services might require special treatment with regard to current and potential future regulatory issues. It also contains some proposals, which could create more favourable environment for enhancing sustainable competition, interoperability of electronic communications services and consumer benefits in the future use of M2M. Some proposals are addressed to NRAs, others to policymakers, legislators, data protection authorities, industry and others.

The draft Report assesses issues regarding mobile network based M2M solutions in more detail since those have been primarily addressed by stakeholders. However, it has to be stressed that many M2M applications exist or may be developed by using other technologies (including fixed or wireless connectivity).

The public consultation on the draft document will run from 5 October till 6 November, 2015.  Stakeholders are invited to send their contributions to: [email protected]. Please provide your contribution in a Word document,preferably in English, in order to speed up the processing.

The draft document will be presented also to the 3rd BEREC Stakeholder Forum Meeting to take place on 15 October 2015 in Brussels.