‘No Reason’ for Sprint IoT Pact Not to ‘Survive’ T-Mobile/Sprint, Says CalAmp CEO 

CalAmp CEO Michael Burdiek “would anticipate” his company’s new Sprint IoT “strategic partnership” agreement will “survive” T-Mobile/Sprint, he said on a fiscal Q2 call Thursday “There would be no reason for it not to.” CalAmp will supply Sprint “intelligent telematics” devices and “device-as-a-service” (DaaS) subscription services. It's a telematics “resell arrangement,” and will “expand Sprint's broad range of connected car, fleet and asset management services,” said Burdiek. Sprint “was really keen” on the DaaS program, “because they see it as a way to lower friction for customer adoption” of telematics services, he said. CalAmp also has a partnership with “another North American telecom service provider” he didn’t name as a reseller of telematics “solutions targeting specific verticals,” he said. “We see carrier partnerships, both domestically and outside the United States, as being ready channels to take some of these software and service solutions into specific verticals in certain regions around the world.” It’s a “real, real nice growth opportunity” for CalAmp, “which we really didn't exercise in the past,” he said.