O2 UK to offer AT&T Digital Life platform

News Wireless United Kingdom 6 JAN 2016
O2 UK to offer AT&T Digital Life platform

O2 UK has teamed with AT&T Digital Life and tado° to launch a new smart home product for consumers in summer 2016. As a result, the UK will be the first market in Europe to offer the AT&T Digital Life home management and automation platform commercially.

O2's Digital Director David Plumb welcomed the collaboration with AT&T for their Digital Life platform, which will integrate old and new devices around the home, and with tado° for their smart heating control.

O2's parent company Telefonica and AT&T Digital Life announced a limited trial of AT&T's home management and automation service in Europe in 2015. Telefonica is the first company to license AT&T's smart home platform. 

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