Back in December 2018 I wrote a blog: “5G is passé. 6G is coming!” observing that, although there had been little mainstream mention of the next generation of cellular technology, 6G, work was already underway in a number of labs.” I detailed a number of those initiatives, and observed: “not surprisingly none of the big […]
LoRa Alliance to hold first Asian meeting
The LoRa Alliance is bringing its all members meeting and open house to Asia for the first time. It will be held in Seoul from 11-13 October to coincide with IoT Week Korea, and will be hosted by SK Telecom, which operates a nationwide LoRaWAN network in Korea, and sponsored by Actility, a global IoT […]
SK Telecom planning nationwide LoRaWAN network
Korean Telco SK Telecom has become the latest telco to announce plans for a nationwide low-powered wide area network based on the LoRaWAN technology. However its press release announcing the move is somewhat ambiguous. It says only that SKT is “building a nationwide Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) within this year,” and that “In July 2015, […]
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 […]
Nokia and SK Telecom demo low powered LTE for IoT
Nokia says it has conducted the first trial in Korea of low powered LTE technology designed for IoT and for communication with devices that can run for a decade on a single battery. The over-the-air trial was conducted in a test bed in SK Telecom’s network technology R&D center, using Nokia’s Flexi Multiradio 10 base […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
