A new report from Verizon, which commissioned ABI Research for the project, charts strong growth in the IoT connectivity business for the US mobile network operator (MNO). The ‘State of the Market: The Internet of Things 2015’ focuses in particular on business installations of IoT tech, and collates a number of other sources to show that IoT technology is increasingly popular among enterprise users. The report notes that while the IoT is currently hailed as the next big thing, the key ingredients of network connectivity, security and infrastructure have existed in some form for decades. We would go a step further and say that the largest impetus behind the increasingly connected products and services is that now the cost of…