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Sprint offers a broad brush of solutions for many industries ranging from connected transportation to education to smart grid to health care to fixed and portable solutions. Embedded M2M solutions wirelessly connect a variety of electronic devices to enable increased operational efficiencies for business and foster the innovation of new consumer and commercial services. Devices can include digital billboards, medical equipment, cameras, video surveillance and security solutions, remote sensors, utility meters, appliances and routers, just to name a few. A healthcare professional, for example, can use M2M to share medical images and monitor vital signs remotely, while trucking companies can use M2M to track their fleet vehicles more efficiently. Sprint is all about enabling our partners and enabling our customers to wirelessly connect applications,machines and technologies together to drive more value, Nelson said. The company accomplishes this mission statement by employing its Open-Network-Execution (ONE) approach to M2M. Sprint promotes openness by delivering an open environment for its customers and partners to develop specialized M2M solutions and deploy them on Sprints Now NetworkTM. Those customers can benefit from Sprints M2M Collaboration Center, an actual working laboratory where customers work next to other experts to collaborate and create M2M solutions; the companys open device initiative, which accelerates the process of identifying, testing and deploying devices for more rapid implementation of M2M business models; and Sprints open business models, which helps create a business model that is the best fit for each customer. Sprints perspective is that the creativity is coming from a broad ecosystem of our M2M partners. Our objective is to help enable the growing number of M2M partners to easily and quickly come on our open network and provide new services and capabilities, Nelson said. Aside from offering openness, Sprint also makes availa