Twilio has quite a few years of helping coders craft apps on its telecommunications platform and the company showcases a new platform which uses wireless bandwidth.
The company helps developers pack features such as messaging, voice, media sharing and notifications, and more than 1 million developers are registered to Twilio. The new platform will benefit from T-Mobile's support to drive its point (and product) across.
The company calls the concept Twilio Programmable Wireless, which should enable future editions of communication software to make use of your mobile device's SIM card.
Twilio's new project has two main beneficiaries: the Internet of Things on one hand and the people, on the other.
A number of IoT gadgets, such as Nest's thermostat or Amazon's Echo use Wi-Fi for connectivity, but Twilio proposes a solid alternative. Making use of cellular data provides more stability and is easier to put into place. The coverage area is also significantly increased.
For the enterprise segment, Twilio gives the possibility of programming SIM cards so that businesses are more productive.
Twilio makes sure that developers are able to code the behavior of the entire carrier network, meaning voice, texting and data connectivity. Some companies might want to have a log of the phone calls between employees and customers, and Twilio can deliver that. Businesses that make use of bring-your-own-device program would want to regulate the traffic that goes on through their employees' mobile devices.
To summarize, Twilio's platform enables both companies and developers to build personalized carrier solution that uses cellular data according to specific needs.
T-Mobile teamed up with the OEM, but it is just the first partner of the company. Considering the large global footprint of Twilio, it is likely that it will recruit other data carriers in order to expand both in the national market and overseas.
"Our partnership with T-Mobile opens the doors to use cases we've only dreamed about until now," says Jeff Lawson, CEO of Twilio.
Having access to programmatic wireless opens up a myriad of possibilities to developers and businesses, and Twilio is excited to see what will come out of it.
We expect Twilio Programmable Wireless to go live in the last quarter of 2016, with the pricing being dependent on the data consumption.
