
Public LoRaWAN growth at 66% – alliance brushes off Bouygues, brushes past Sigfox
The LoRa Alliance has moved to head off fears about a collapse of LoRaWAN as a public network technology in Europe, following the decision by Bouygues Telecom in France to …

LoRaWAN gets a lift with Helium – with new roaming in Canada, to go with US, Europe
Helium has followed roaming deals with LoRaWAN operator Senet in the US and LoRaWAN platform provider Actility in Europe with a new roaming tie-up with LoRaWAN provider X-TELIA in Canada. …

Swiss Post, Swisscom offer LoRaWAN-based SmartButton for one-click postal services
Swiss Post has developed a battery-operated optical identification (OID) device, the SmartButton, running on LoRaWAN, to offer consumers and businesses a means to order postal services with a simple button-press. …

Deutsche Telekom ramps up NB-IoT and LTE-M roaming in bid to offer global IoT
Deutsche Telekom has said it is now offering NB-IoT connectivity in 20 countries and LTE-M in 10 countries. The company has outlined new cellular IoT contracts for water irrigation with …

Deutsche Telekom inks NB-IoT roaming deals with key European carriers
German telecommunications operator Deutsche Telekom (DT) has signed its first narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) roaming agreements with several European operator partners, the carrier said in a release. The cooperation with …

Sprint inks IoT access agreements with Telia, Swisscom
Sprint announced collaborations with Swiss operator Swisscom and Nordic carrier Telia to extend the Sprint Curiosity Internet of Things (IoT) platform to Europe. Sprint said that thanks to this …

AT&T, KPN, Orange and Swisscom strike deal on LTE-M roaming
AT&T, KPN, Orange and Swisscom have switched on LTE-M roaming across their respective IoT networks in North America and Europe. The deal means LTE-M modules activated with any of the …

LoRaWAN 100-club claims 60% growth, tech ‘superiority’; stokes battle with Sigfox
The number of LoRaWAN network operators jumped by more than 60 per cent in 2018, according to the LoRa Alliance. It said its global operator count stands at more than …

Huawei partners with Canadian IoT firm on smart city projects
Under the partnership, Huawei and BeWhere plan to develop M-IoT LPWA, NB-IoT and LTE-M applications Chinese vendor Huawei recently entered a partnership with Canadian industrial internet of things (IoT) solutions …

Swisscom, Swiss Post partner to expand IoT efforts
The Swiss operator had launched a low power network in the country last year to expand its IoT offering Swiss telecommunications operator Swisscom and Swiss Post have signed an agreement …