Vodafone has discussed plans to introduce ‘outcome-based’ pricing for IoT connectivity, wherein customers are billed according to the outcome of the messages sent over the MNO’s network, rather than billed on a monthly cycle based around a usage limit. The operator’s head of IoT for the Americas, Ludovico Fassati, first mooted the idea at last month’s Mobile World Congress Americas. He said that the MNO had to be creative with its pricing, as it does not have access to the US networks directly. To this end, it would explore a different way of billing for services, given that AT&T, Verizon, and the likely merged Sprint and T-Mobile, will be able to beat it down on pure price alone. So, the…