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Digital Highway Wireless Solutions Signs on to the nPhase Alliance Partner Program

By TechTaffy Desk

nPhase, a Verizon Wireless/Qualcomm joint venture, and Digital Highway Wireless Solutions (DHWS) announced that DHWS has signed on to the nPhase ONE developer program and through this relationship has created private label machine-to-machine (M2M) management portals for their first two M2M customers on the Verizon Wireless mobile network.

These customers are:

•Vectren Corporation, a gas and electric utility serving one million gas customers in Indiana and Ohio and 150,000 electric customers in Southern Indiana, and

•Tru-Fast Wireless, a provider of credit and debit card payment processing services in the US, working largely within vending markets to provide payment processing as well as wireless communications.

nPhase, a 50/50 joint venture between Qualcomm and Verizon, provides advanced Machine to Machine (M2M) cloud platform services to wireless operators such as Verizon and Vodafone, and enterprise customers. More information about nPhase can be found here.

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