Truphone, a London-based international mobile operator specializing in voice and IoT connectivity, has joined forces with chipset maker Sony Semiconductor Israel and Belfast-based SIM specialist Kigen to develop an integrated SIM (iSIM) package for global IoT deployment. Sony Semi, formerly called Altair, and Kigen, which was spun out of ARM in November 2020, had worked separately on a proprietary version of iSIM technology for remote provisioning of IoT devices on networks using either of the cellular LPWAN protocols, NB-IoT and LTE-M networks. Indeed, that iSIM capability from Sony Semi and Kigen had already been demonstrated in a proof of concept (PoC) during June 2021 by Soracom, another global provider of advanced IoT connectivity. Now Truphone has gone further by bringing…