Japanese firm Soracom has partnered USCellular to offer an IoT data plan designed to simplify data costs and ensure future-proof regulatory compliance for IoT use cases that may require a local profile for devices in the USA.

Soracom’s Plan-US offers nationwide, multicarrier 4G, 5G, LTE-M and NB-IoT data, including major US carriers and regional carriers for increased coverage density even in remote, rural areas. Affordable monthly data packages make deployment costs clear and predictable, with bundles available from 1Mbyte up to 10Gbyte to support IoT deployments at every stage from prototyping to full deployment.

Plan-US also includes the ability to add profiles for global roaming or maximum multicarrier coverage as needed via Soracom subscription containers while maintaining bundled pricing.

“Coverage you can count on is everything in IoT, thus we have looked for ways to provide denser coverage for less populated areas in the USA,” said Kenta Yasukawa, CTO of Soracom. “For customers with predictable data needs, Soracom Plan-US combines the simplicity of bundled data with the power of cloud-native 5G, LTE-M and NB-IoT to put IoT projects on a fast track to scale.”

Kim Kerr, senior vice president for USCellular (www.uscellular.com), added: “We’re excited to work with Soracom to provide a seamless wireless experience for our customers with IoT and M2M application needs and help get them connected wherever they are.”

Plan-US is available now and includes Soracom’s network management console and API at no added cost and provides access to a wide range of platform services, from data visualisation and remote device access to secure private networking.

Soracom (www.soracom.io) is a technology partner to more than 20,000 start-ups, SMBs and enterprises, connecting more than five million IoT devices globally.