Results from the experimental evaluation prove that the proposed architecture enhanced the practicability by effectively supporting the mobility and managing the traffic in the real-time mobile asset tracking applications.
Verizon, on the other hand, seems focused on securing 100% ownership of the mobile asset but does not appear ready to contemplate a combination with Vodafone, which in any case is made more difficult by today's valuation gap.
On June 30th, to prevent Spain's Telefónica seizing full control of Vivo, a valuable Brazilian mobile asset it jointly owns with Portugal Telecom, Portugal's government used its golden share in the national telecoms operator to block the Spaniards' attack.
In the mobile asset management services applicable to warehouse, hospital, etc. a low-cost and practical bidirectional location tracking of mobile asset is one of the most important technical issue must be solved.
Michael Bishop, analyst at RBC Capital Markets, said: "With two operators potentially looking at selling their mobile asset... we believe BT is in the driver's seat and the risk of overpaying for a mobile asset is reduced".
To address this problem, we propose the three-tier middleware architecture called uMATI (ubiquitous Mobile Asset Tracking Infra).
