
Did IoT just get ‘massive’? Vodafone signs multi-million multi-market NB-IoT deal
Note this article is taken from a forthcoming editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights on the state of the NB-IoT market; the report will appear here next week. An Enterprise …

IoT security market to hit $8bn by 2026 – to protect LTE, NB-IoT, LTE-M networks
The market for IoT security services will pass $8 billion by 2026, according to ABI Research, spurred by the need to secure spiralling numbers of IoT connections, mostly on LTE-based …

Nokia supplies private LTE for Western Power Distribution’s smart-grid tests
Nokia has deployed a private LTE network for electricity company Western Power Distribution (WPD) in the UK to test various smart grid applications including for monitoring of power networks, distributed …

AT&T offers eSIM and iSIM to streamline cellular IoT production
AT&T has teamed up with Belfast-based SIM specialist Kigen, spun-out of chip design company Arm at the end of last year, to allow cellular IoT device makers to source integrated …

Deutsche Telekom, China Mobile, Vodafone lead AT&T, Verizon for enterprise 5G
Deutsche Telekom, China Unicom, Orange, China Mobile, and Vodafone have ranked top, apparently in order, in an assessment of 20 mobile network operators for enterprise 5G connectivity. These five are …

A MulteFire matrix for ‘universal’ private 5G – and how to fix the ‘faulty’ 5G supply chain
MFA, formerly the MulteFire Alliance, is to deliver a set of ‘technology blueprints’ so every different business in every different industrial ‘vertical’ can specify and source industrial 5G devices, and …

MulteFire, finally – unlicensed LTE lifts off, rebrands, takes left-turn as 5G match-maker
The LTE-based MulteFire standard, one of the pioneer technologies in the private cellular market, is alive and kicking – well, alive, anyway – and also mutating into something brand new, …

Citymesh snaps up Belgian Sigfox operator, as Sigfox seeks buyers in France and US
Busy Belgian private network provider and industrial connectivity specialist Citymesh has acquired local Sigfox operator ENGIE M2M. The firm said the addition of ultra-narrowband (UNB) low-power IoT connectivity rounds-out its …

Broadband IoT to overtake legacy 2G and 3G based IoT this year, says Ericsson
IoT traffic on latest-generation mobile ‘broadband’ 4G and 5G infrastructure will outrun IoT traffic on old-generation ‘broadband’ 3G and old-school 2G networks in 2021, reckons Ericsson. The terminology gets confusing, …

‘Uniting this unruly edge’ – Cisco claims easy modularity, high security for new 5G family
Cisco has announced a new portfolio of industrial 5G routers for edge networking setups, with support also for LTE, WI-Fi 6, as well as the open Wi-SUN (‘wireless smart utility …