BROWSING: NB-IoT

Note: this the second part of an introduction to a forthcoming editorial report on smart meters, covering how ‘IoT has changed up a gear in the utilities market’. The report will be available next month. RCR Wireless will host a webinar on the same...

Meanwhile in other Sigfox news, Sigfox-parent Unabiz has sold a large-scale LoRaWAN network to a major shopping mall in the northeast of Singapore. NEX, a seven-storey shopping mall at the Serangoon bus station, located where the city-state’s Northeast and Circle metro lines cross, has...

Orange has committed to non-cellular IoT connectivity technology LoRaWAN “beyond 2027”. The France-based mobile operator effectively told the SIDO Lyon, the major France-based IoT and AI trade fair, today (September 20) that it will continue to support the development of its public LoRaWAN network...

Deutsche Telekom is offering non-cellular LoRaWAN, as well as satellite-based cellular IoT, as part of its expanded global IoT proposition for connecting data-only embedded SIMs (eSIMs) in both low-power (LPWA) and also high-power wide-area IoT applications. It said it has integrated distributed LoRaWAN “more...

Verizon used Ericsson's new RedCap compatible software and MediaTek’s RedCap testing platform Verizon announced the completion of data and voice (VoNR) sessions over its 5G network using Ericsson's new RedCap-compatible software (a.k.a. the "NR light" functionality) and MediaTek’s RedCap testing platform. RedCap, or Reduced Capability, is...

Japanese semiconductor manufacturer Renesas Electronics has agreed a deal to buy France-based cellular IoT chipmaker Sequans Communications for $249 million. The deal is expected to close “by the first quarter” of next year (2024), subject to its formal approval by the French firm’s works...

Airtel provides IoT services for enterprises across different industries such as automobile, energy, utilities, logistics, financial services and manufacturing Indian operator Bharti Airtel announced that its B2B division Airtel Business, has already connected over 20 million devices through its IoT solutions across India. The company said...

Taiwanese advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and private network provider Ubiik has acquired New Zealand industrial IoT solution outfit Mimomax Wireless for an undisclosed fee. The pair said the deal created a “best-of-breed wireless solutions provider for utilities and critical infrastructure”. Ubik said it will...

Global revenues from cellular IoT networks increased 24 percent to reach €10.8 billion in 2022, calculates analyst firm Berg Insight. However they account for just two percent of total mobile revenues among the largest operator groups, it said, and are in general decline, with...

KDDI-owned global virtual IoT network operator (MVNO) Soracom has announced a partnership with US-based cellular-IoT satellite operator Skylo Technologies. The deal sees Soracom further integrate non-terrestrial network (NTN) connectivity as an option in its cloud-managed portfolio of wireless IoT standards, which also includes (terrestrial)...

Quectel, Telit Cinterion, and Fibocom captured more than half of the total cellular IoT module shipments in the first quarter of 2023, according to market analysis from Counterpoint Research. Quectel remained the leading vendor; Telit Cinterion climbed to second. Total shipments were flat compared...

An IoT MVNO killer? It sure sounds like it, almost – if the whole rest of the global operator market could just pick it up. But no, says the global enterprise arm of US operator Verizon; IoT-geared MVNOs will plug into its new global...

Sigfox has officially joined the LoRa Alliance – as a contributing member, no less. The French-born ultra-narrowband IoT network tech – once (long ago) the darling of the European IoT startup scene, until its money-shredding decline and desperate fire-sale at the start of 2022...

Vodafone Spain has said it has won a €25 million deal to supply 315,000 water meters over five years to Canal de Isabel II, the local government-owned water utility in the Madrid region. Vodafone was one of four winners in the tender; it is...

Keysight Technologies has teamed up with space-based NB-IoT start-up Skylo to put together a certification program for 3GPP 5G Release 17 Non-Terrestrial Network chipsets, modules and devices to be used on Skylo's network. Skylo will use Keysight's testing solutions combined with Skylo's own test...

Vodafone appears to be putting renewed effort into its commercial smart-label product, developed originally by Sony Semiconductor, in combination with SIM specialist Kigen and module maker Murata, and supplied initially as a proof-of-concept with cellular IoT airtime from Vodafone into German pharmaceuticals firm Bayer...

Sooner or later, it all comes down to money – and there just aren’t that many clear-cut use cases to bankroll a private 5G deployment. That is the consensus. Yes, industrial AR for remote assistance, reliable mobility for AGVs and AMRs, and, most convincingly,...

The total number of IoT connections will increase by 162 percent – more than double, less than triple – in the period to 2028, says the latest edition of Ericsson’s bi-annual mobility report. It has the total at 13.2 billion connections, as of the...

Berg Insight said that Quectel, Fibocom, Sierra Wireless, Sunsea AIoT and Telit held a 69% share of the market in terms of revenues Revenues from shipments of IoT modules reached $5.9 billion last year, up 12% year-on-year, according to a new research report from...

The total number of cellular IoT connections, on all cellular network technologies, grew 29 percent in the last 12 months, to finish 2022 on 27 billion connections, and will more than double in the period to 2030, when the figure tops six billion. So...

The number of global IoT connections will grow at a compound rate of 10 percent per year (CAGR) over the next decade, almost tripling in the period, to reach 34.4 billion connections in 2032. So says the latest market forecast from UK IoT analyst...

New research from analyst house Omdia says the number of low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT network connections will grow at a compound annual rate (CAGR) of 23 percent in the period to 2028, driven mostly by growth in NB-IoT and LoRaWAN technologies. NB-IoT and LoRa...

Airtel said its NB-IoT platform is scalable to 5G Indian carrier Bharti Airtel announced its partnership with Secure Meters for the deployment of NB-IoT services that will power 1.3 million homes in Bihar state through a smart meter solution. Bharti Airtel noted that this deployment will...

Big news at the low-power wide-area (LPWA) end of the IoT world, particularly for those in the trenches with Sigfox, and final proof if it was needed that Sigfox-owner Unabiz, a year into its rescue mission, is an agitator and a reformist in the...