Vodafone New Zealand has launched an IoT devices management service, Connect by xone, to give businesses visibility and control their IoT assets. The service, Connect by xone, is a localised version of the Global Data Service Platform (GDSP), operated by the UK based Vodafone Group. According to Vodafone NZ it “provides key in-country functionality to […]
Telstra IoT revenue lags service growth
Telstra has reported almost 21 percent growth in the number of IoT services on its mobile network but only a 3.0 percent revenue growth. In its FY21 annual results presentation last week Telstra reported a 20.8 percent increase in LTE-M (CAT-M1) and NB-IoT connections to 3.784 million, but revenue increased by only 3.0 percent to […]
Ericsson says CAT-M1 and NB-IoT connections tripled in 2019
The number of CAT-M1 and NB-IoT connections tripled to almost 100 million in 2019, according to Ericsson. In the latest, June, edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report the company is forecasting NB-IoT and Cat-M1 to account for 52 percent of all cellular IoT connections by the end of 2025. Ericsson says it has identified 125 […]
Arduino debuts NB-IoT/Cat-M1 version with Telstra
Telstra has partnered with Arduino, maker of a popular, low cost programmable circuit board widely used for the control and monitoring of IoT devices and will offer a version of the Arduino board supporting NB-IoT and Cat-M1. The new version, the Arduino MKR NB 1500 board will be available to purchase in early 2019 from […]
Vodafone NZ announces NB-IoT and CAT-M1 coverage
Vodafone New Zealand has simultaneously turned on NB-IoT and CAT-M1 technology in its cellular network. NB-IoT is available to 97.5 percent of the population and 48.2 percent of the land area, Vodafone NZ says. CAT-M1 (which Vodafone prefers to refer to as LTE-M) has 60.1 percent population coverage. Vodafone NZ says this his will […]
Smart meters ‘first’ for Telstra CAT-M1 network trials
Sierra Wireless has announced that it will supply CAT-M1 modules embedded in Landis+Gyr smart meters, making them what it says will be the first CAT-M1 devices to be deployed on Telstra’s CAT-M1 network. No details of the trial have been announced, such as where it will be conducted and the electricity utility involved. However when Ericsson […]
Ericsson upgrades Telstra network to CAT-M1, nationwide
Ericsson announced at Mobile World Congress that Telstra has deployed its software to upgrade the entire Telstra cellular network to support the 3GPP CAT-M1 technology designed for IoT. The move potentially puts Telstra into head-on competition with companies like Thinxtra and NNN Co that are rolling out LP WAN networks using, respectively Sigfox and LoRaWAN […]
Ericsson readies Telstra for IoT with Cat-M1 demo
Ericsson says that, along with Qualcomm it has “executed network and device testing of data communications on Cat-M1,” for Telstra at its headquarters in Sweden. Cat-M1 is a variant of 3GPP LTE standardised in 3GPP Release 13. It will deliver maximum upstream and downstream bandwidths of 1Mbps using 1.4MHz of spectrum. The protocol has […]
