Soracom

根據今年3月初soracom ceo 玉川憲先生的演講初步了解這個新創的 物聯網MVNO平台丶

2015/9 soracom air service
它在網路販售sim card, 最便宜只要每月300日圓丶用戶可以管理SIM by web portal like connectivity management platform. It also supports the API for enterprises. Till Feb 2016, there are more than 1500 enterprise customers.

Use cases, parco dept stores,公車車機，除雪車管理，whill 輪椅(管理電池？)，Akerun遠距門鎖，短租期POS，tokyu hands 3G備用電路，訪日data sim

Rate plan
先付一次性560日圓丶
日租standby time 5 . Activated 10 yuan
使用1M 0.2 yuan
Offpeak time saving

Question: regulation for activation process? Competition with docomo? Low enough settlement rate from docomo?

Partners
-Device 30 more gaeways, routers, nmodules, cameras, obd etc
-Solution
-Integration

Technical partner
-Docomo for base station n radio
- AWS VPC for cloud service, intra AWS private line connecton toenterprise servers

Srategic partner
Hitachi cloud direct leased line to soracom VPC in Amazon
Sakura internet use private connection thru soracom to its subscribed Sim and then data providers pay API fee to sakura , data users pay provider data usage fee and pay sakura api fee. Data users create other value to earn revenue.

Soracom與其他MVNO業者的差別，在於他講所有認證，費稅率，後勤管理的設備全部放在A W S的雲端上，而不需要另外採購通訊設備，此外，其他業者是以賺取價差為商業模式，他則是以雲端原生介接的方式提供服務進而創造價值，