Startup IoTOz is planning to roll out low powered wide area networks for IoT in Australia, New Zealand and about 20 countries in Asia Pacific, based on the Random Phase Multiple Access (RPM) technology developed by US-based Ingenu, formerly On-Ramp Wireless. IoT Australia reported Ingenu on 8 March saying it was working with strategic […]
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 […]
LPWAN v cellular: the jury is still out
French mobile operator, Orange, has fleshed out its plans for a nationwide LoRaWAN network, first revealed in September, provoking a bit of a put-down from Mobile World Live, the news organ of the GSMA. That was not such a good idea: it serves only to flag the fact that the mobile industry sees LPWAN as […]
Tata Communications plans India wide LoRaWAN network
Indian telco Tata Communications has become the latest major telco to jump on the LoRaWAN bandwagon, announcing plans for an India wide LoRaWAN network following successful trials in Mumbai and Delhi. Last month, France’s largest mobile operator, Orange announced plans for a nationwide LoRaWAN network and Telstra is dipping its toe in the water with […]
Telstra to trial LPWAN for IoT in Melbourne?
We’ve reported earlier suggestions that Telstra could be rolling out a low powered wide area network for IoT applications, and there’s new evidence from Telstra itself almost certainly confirming that to be the case, and soon. Telstra is mounting an Internet of Things Challenge in Melbourne in November and on its web page for the […]
NNN Co calls for $800m LoRaWAN network for Australian agriculture
National Narrowband Network Company (NNN Co) — which is rolling out is own low power wide area network for IoT based on the LoRaWAN technology — is calling on the Government to spend $800m to build a LoRaWAN network covering 2.5m square kilometres to support IoT applications for Australian agriculture. It argues that If the […]
Orange France goes for nationwide LoRa network
Orange, one of the world’s largest telcos with 159 million mobile subscribers – about 25 million in France – has embraced the LoRa low powered wide area network technology for IoT with great enthusiasm, announcing plans for a nationwide network in France. The move comes at a time when the cellular industry has been working […]
SK Telecom has joined the LoRa Alliance
The LoRawan low-powered wide area radio technology developed for connecting devices in the Internet of Things has received a substantial boost towards standardisation with the announcement that Korean telcom SK Telecom has joined the LoRa Alliance and will collaborate with other members to achieve the international standardisation of the technology. The company has also unveiled […]
Startup planning Australian LoRaWan network
Australian startup company National Narrowband Network Communications is planning a dedicated low power wide area wireless network based on the LoRaWan standard for connecting IoT devices. The Australian LoRaWan network would be open to any organisation to use for its own IoT applications and devices and the company is looking to partner with Australia’s Government […]
LPWAN – wide open field for wide area networking technology
If you’re not a close follower of what’s happening in the Internet of Things (IoT) this acronym—for low power wide area network—might be new to you, but it represents one of the most important components and one of the most hotly contested aspects of the Internet of Things – the radio communications technology that ‘things’ […]
