This announcement is reminiscent of AT&T’s “3G Access Program”, launched in 2010, when the company worked with a number of different module vendors to introduce low cost 3G modules into the M2M market. Then, as now, the move suggests a recognition from AT&T that relatively expensive module pricing has constrained M2M and IoT market growth and at the same dissuaded developers from transitioning to 3G and 4G technologies. While other factors were at play, the company’s 3G Access Program did...