Cisco is making the business case for mobile operators to install 5G masts in rural regions based on connecting livestock, rather than people.
The company, leading a network of 29 organisations in the UK, is confident its project will produce a ‘hard’ ROI for service...
The availability of LTE network coverage in a customer location is not a true indication of a fully operational NB-IoT or LTE-M service. IoT devices are typically installed in remote locations such as basements and garages where the network signals are weak. Failure events...
The availability of LTE network coverage in a customer location is not a true indication of a fully operational NB-IoT or LTE-M service. IoT devices are typically installed in remote locations such as basements and garages where the network signals are weak. Failure events...
The U.S. carrier launched a nationwide NB-IoT network in July 2018
Swiss firm u‑blox says that T‑Mobile US has certified its LTE Cat NB1 SARA‑N410 module to run on the carrier’s narrowband internet of things network.
U-blox said its module, which supports ultra-low power consumption, can...
Under the deal, the two partners will deploy massive MIMO technology in Beeline’s network
Russian mobile carrier VimpelCom, which operates under the Beeline brand controlled by the Veon group, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Ericsson.
Under the terms of the two-year agreement, both companies...
Ericsson said the new technology will allow the carrier to expand its LTE footprint across the country
Swedish vendor Ericsson and Australian carrier Telstra said they have successfully deployed and tested narrowband internet of things data connections up to 100 kilometers from a base station...
AT&T has introduced a flat-rate full-fat LTE-M data plan in the US of £30 per month for unlimited data.
The One Rate subscription applies only to AT&T-approved IoT LTE-M devices, and to single devices at a time – data cannot be pooled across multiple internet-of-things...
Vodafone will use its new "Sensing4Farming" platform for the NB-IoT project with Bodegas Emilio Toro
Vodafone has signed an agreement with Spanish wine producer Bodegas Emilio Moro to develop what it describes as the "winery of the future", using narrowband Internet of Things technology, Spanish...
Vodafone announced plans to deploy new infrastructure in the U.K., Romania and Hungary
Vodafone has confirmed plans to double the number of European sites in its narrowband Internet of Things network footprint by the end of 2019.
The U.K.-based telecom group said it has seen a...
AT&T will make IoT modules with integrated SIMs available on its LTE-M network in the first half of 2019.
The carrier is working with German internet-of-things (IoT) module manufacturer Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) to integrate a next-generation SIM into a chipset by Israeli firm Altair Semiconductor for...
US carrier AT&T is in talks with the city of Los Angeles about a public-private partnership to deploy small cells, 5G connectivity, and internet-of-things technologies in order to enhance civic operations.
AT&T said the deal will make the city “one of the smartest” in America.
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Cellular low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks running on LTE-M and NB-IoT technologies will account for three-quarters of the installed base of asset trackers in 2023, according to new research.
These will displace non-cellular LPWA solutions, mostly based on LoRa and Sigfox, as the principle connectivity technologies...
Well established North American and European manufacturers of M2M and IoT devices have seen their share of global shipments slip by 15 per cent in the last 12 months as Chinese vendors have flooded the market with low-value 2G kit, and ramped up their...
As the summer ends, the weather worsens. For some, the changing seasons bring devastating storms. Their shadows grow ever-longer, and the risk to life grows ever-higher. Last year (2017) saw some of the worst natural disasters on record, with earthquakes, fires, flooding and landslides.
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We all have the experience of driving around looking for a parking place, whether we are attending a conference or shopping downtown. It is not just time-consuming and frustrating, but if you add up all the cars, there is also a lot of fuel...
Deutsche Telekom said the system will be linked to the IoT for bridges, tunnels, building and other concrete infrastructure at the airport
Düsseldorf Airport, one of the most important German hubs in international air traffic, has teamed with Deutsche Telekom and its partner BS2 Sicherheitssysteme...
Airtel is already working to develop industry-specific solutions for its future NB-IoT offering
Indian telecommunications firm Bharti Airtel expects to launch a narrowband internet of things network in the country in the short term, local newspaper the Economic Times reported.
With this move, the telco aims to...
The internet of things (IoT) is gathering momentum in the enterprise space. Analyst firm Machina Research anticipates there will be three billion low-power wide-area (LPWA) connections by 2025, and Analysys Mason forecasts LPWA technologies will generate $5 billion globally in connectivity revenue by 2025....
With the announcements by three major U.S. telecom carriers this year, and significant activity taking place in China, narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) has come out of the shadows in a big way. The announcements by AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile that they would be stepping up...
The right mobile broadband infrastructure could deliver big productivity gains to U.S. farmers as the internet of things lets them analyze data about crops, weather, and soil conditions more effectively. But recent policy initiatives, including a rulemaking proposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC 18-42)...
T-Mo turns up NB-IoT services
T-Mobile US is laying claim to a narrowband internet of things first, with the official launch of a new narrowband IoT network that operates in guard bands. The carrier said that its service is the first NB-IoT network in the...
By the Köln Ost junction on the A3 motorway in the North Rhine-Westphalia region in Germany, a group of engineers has mocked-up a 25,000 square-metre roadway network with a mash-up of internet-of-things (IoT) technologies in order to find ways to predict faults and failures...
The European market for cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) communications will grow to 416.5 million connections by 2023, from 86 million at the end of 2017, according to ABI Research. This growth, of 384 per cent, will come with the launch of new internet-of-things (IoT) based...
The LoRaWAN movement has something of the do-it-yourself ethos of punk music in the late 1970s. The Things Network (TTN), an Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN curation project, is one of its leaders, offering a simplified set of 'internet-of-things' (IoT) connectivity solutions and developer tools, and a...
