SoftBank to sell 1NCE flat rate across Apac

  • October 4, 2023
  • Steve Rogerson
  • 1NCE

Japanese firm SoftBank is to offer flat-rate IoT services across Apac countries in a deal with German IoT connectivity company 1NCE.

SoftBank is the exclusive seller of 1NCE in Apac, but has focused primarily on marketing the 1NCE IoT Flat Rate in Japan. It is now expanding sales into 19 countries and regions of Apac to step up the global rollout of its IoT business.

Leveraging its existing locations in Apac comprising 22 locations in nine countries and regions, SoftBank (www.softbank.jp) will quadruple its IoT salesforce, launch a dedicated online IoT shop in partnership with 1NCE and strengthen advertising and other marketing initiatives in the region.

The countries and regions served by the online shop are Australia, Hong Kong, Macao, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. 1NCE and SoftBank will manage the shop out of Singapore, selling the global IoT subscription for US$15 for ten years. Further Apac expansion will be announced in the first half of 2024.

More than 15,000 customers worldwide and over 60 Fortune 500 companies already use 1NCE with more than 20 million managed endpoints across 165 countries and regions.

“IoT is expanding in Apac at a blistering pace, with IDC projecting spending to reach $435bn in the next 48 months,” said Hitoshi Ono, senior vice president for Apac at 1NCE (1nce.com). “1NCE and SoftBank are ready to deliver lifetime, affordable IoT that will supercharge digital transformation plans in smart cities, simplify increasingly complex supply chains, and support environmental monitoring essential to disaster mitigation and prevention.”

With the 1NCE Lifetime Flat subscription, customers can deploy, connect and manage IoT sensors across the world for as little as a dollar per year per device depending on the region. Complimentary to all Lifetime Flat customers, 1NCE OS is enterprise-grade software that supports IoT projects of any scale, for new and existing projects alike.

Using 1NCE OS for device and cloud integration, users can accelerate time-to-market for IoT projects by months. It also features remote access to device states and telemetry, device location without GPS, and optimised payload transmission to increase battery life by up to 70 per cent.

Customers in Apac can get started with 1NCE at the online shop and access customer support in 25 languages.