ABI Research says LoRaWAN and Sigfox will hold the leading share of LPWAN networks connections until at least 2024, but by 2026 cellular technologies NB-IoT and LTE-M will account for 60 percent of its estimate of 3.6 billion LPWAN network connections. However, ABI Research expect LoRa and Sigfox to account for over 80 percent of […]
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 […]
Telstra upgrades LTE network for IoT support
Telstra has announced support for Category 1 (Cat 1) devices on its LTE network. Cat 1 will enable the network to support devices with much lower cost chips, $5 or less, according to Telstra, with battery life of up to 10 years and will enable the network to penetrate deeper into buildings. In a blog […]
LTE-M is coming, but is that M for M2M or M for Maritime?
Korean telco, SK Telecom, has just announced plans to launch what it says will be the world’s first pilot LTE-M (LTE for Maritime Wireless Communications) network, as part of a research and development project led by the Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF). According to SK Telecom, LTE-M will provide high-speed wireless telecommunications for […]
