Telstra has joined Ericsson’s IoT Accelerator, a combination of platform services for IoT and agreements with mobile operators and technology partners that enables enterprises to deploy IoT capability worldwide and manage it centrally. Ericsson says its IoT Accelerator ecosystem spans more than 30 service providers in more than 100 countries and has more than 3,500 […]
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 […]
NetComm Wireless seeks $50m to boost global M2M ranking – UPDATED
NetComm Wireless (ASX: NTC) is looking to raise $50 million to fund its plans to be at the forefront of the global M2M and fixed wireless communications infrastructure markets. It says nbn’s Ericsson-supplied fixed wireless network, for which it supplies the CPE, is the only demonstrable in-field solution of its kind globally and was instrumental […]
MWC day two brings more IoT news
Day two of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona saw another number of IoT related announcements. Nokia announced NB-IoT trials with Vodafone, and Ericsson with Verizon. Sigfox announced two new customers Nokia, Intel and Vodafone demo NB-IoT Nokia demonstrated NB-IoT technology at Mobile World Congress in collaboration with Intel and Vodafone, “marking a major milestone in the […]
IoT all the rage at Mobile World Congress
IoT announcements of all kinds emerged on the first day of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Here’s a summary of them. Singtel and Ericsson to trial NB-IoT Singtel and Ericsson has formd a partnership to ready Singtel’s LTE network to support the expected rapid growth of connected devices. The collaboration will start with a trial […]
Cellular vs LPWAN: the battle heats up
Several announcements and reports coinciding with the CES show in Las Vegas have thrown the spotlight on the intensifying competition between cellular and low powered wide area network technologies for the IoT market. These include: Announcement for Ericsson of “the ICT industry’s first complete cellular low-power wide-area offering, with backing from leading operator AT&T.” A […]
Ericsson targets winemakers as it ramps up IoT focus with telco partners
Ericsson appears to making a serious push into the IoT space in partnership with mobile network operators.
Ericsson’s software upgrade strengthens cellular for IoT
Ericsson has made a number of enhancement to its cellular network software aimed at boosting the role of cellular networks in the provision of connectivity for IoT. The enhancements, incorporated in release 16B of Ericsson’s software, are designed to improve support for low complexity, low cost IoT devices with extended battery life, and to improve […]
Capillary networks for IoT, where ZigBee, bluetooth, etc meet cellular
Today’s mobile networks support a wide range of machine to machine (M2M) applications but are ill-suited to many emerging IoT applications that require low bandwidth communication with static devices that are expected to operate for a decade or more on a AA battery. The cellular industry is evolving LTE to better meet the requirements of […]
