The fragmented IoT market is hard to understand for enterprises and hard to navigate for operators. Swedish vendor Ericsson says its new IoT 'accelerator' can help both sides. Enterprise IoT Insights chats with Jeff Travers, head of IoT at Ericsson, about the challenge to...
DT will offer fleet management solutions from IoT provider Fleet Complete
Deutsche Telekom has announced a partnership with IoT solutions provider Fleet Complete to expand its presence in the fleet management space in the German market. Through this partnership. Deutsche Telekom will provide a complete...
Unlicensed networks, mostly based on LoRa and Sigfox, make up two-thirds of low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks today, according to a study of 100 LPWA networks by IoT research firm ON World. A third of the total network deployments are geared towards smart city applications,...
Vodafone will work with Veolia Energy to kick off a commercial NB-IoT initiative in the Czech Republic
Vodafone Czech Republic and Veolia Energie have launched a commercial NB-IoT project to deploy smart meters. Under the NB-IoT initiative, a total of 1,000 smart meters will be connected...
NB-IoT deployments in Saudi Arabia, Greece focus on enterprise and industrial use cases
Narrowband-internet of things (NB-IoT) connectivity is one of the 3GPP standards for massive IoT support. While the IoT has a number of standard and non-standard access options, NB-IoT is seeing global momentum...
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Rivada Networks loses...
Under the new deal, enterprise customers of Telefonica and China Unicom will be able to offer IoT services in China, Europe and Latin America
Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica and China Unicom have signed an agreement in the field of internet of things (IoT). Under the...
The internet of things was one of the hottest topics at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, with news of expanding networks and more momentum for various types of IoT connectivity and use cases.
Here are some of the major themes of enterprise IoT...
Ericsson has also announced a commercial IoT platform in Sri Lanka with Dialog Axiata
Cisco and the Three Group have announced the global availability of the Cisco Jasper Control Center automated IoT connectivity platform for enterprise customers. The Three Group’s customers can now have access...
Cisco has launched the first commercially available global narrow-band IoT (NB-IoT) platform, it said at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday (February 27th).
Its Cisco Jasper Control Center for NB-IoT enables operators to manage their IoT networks and devices. China Unicom said early...
The two companies will collaborate on end-to- end
network slicing for critical communications
Mobile operator Swisscom announced plans to deploy a commercial 5G network by the
end of this year in partnership with Ericsson, which will provide the necessary hardware and
software.
The European telco said it will trial...
The GSMA said this growth is supported by 34 IoT labs globally
The GSMA announced that a total of 23 mobile operators have commercially launched 41 mobile IoT networks worldwide across both NB-IoT and LTE-M technologies.
The GSMA highlighted that this growth is supported by 34...
IoT vision includes a "sensor for everything"
From smart refrigerators that let you know when it's time to pick up more milk to connected cows that are easily tracked by farmers, the internet of things (IoT) is all about using web-connected sensors to gain real-time...
5G is going to be all about multi-gigabit-per-second speeds, support for the booming internet of things and ultra-low latency. But 5G isn't here yet. That said, operators are embracing the evolution aspect of LTE, using technologies including massive MIMO, License Assisted Access and more...
NB-IoT will complement existing LTE Cat 1 and Cat M1 network support
The internet of things (IoT) consists of a huge variety of use cases that come with a widely varying set of network capacity and coverage needs. To address this large market, operators around...
Telia Company working with the Finnish postal service to develop a smart mailbox project
The Finnish postal service Posti and Swedish telecommunications group Telia Company have developed a new type of smart mailbox, which claims to be the first in the world to use NB-IoT...
The sensors will be connected via NB-IoT and will allow users to see available parking spaces via an app
German operator Deutsche Telekom started to install a new network of sensors on parking spaces in downtown Hamburg, in Germany.
The telco said that these sensors will...
Deutsche Telekom has launched an IoT space within IBM 's Watson IoT center in Munich
German operator Deutsche Telekom has launched an IoT innovation space within IBM’s Watson IoT center in Munich, Germany. As part of the firm’s efforts to expand its IoT ecosystem, Deutsche...
Battle for adoption
As the demand for worldwide IoT rapidly rises, so does the need for low power, low-cost and low throughput cellular devices. CAT-M and NB-IoT, the two cellular technologies leading the cellular IoT era, are competing for position and adoption around the world.
When...
Telstra said the new launch will benefit industries such as transportation and logistics, mining, manufacturing and agriculture.
Australian telecoms operator Telstra announced it deployed narrowband technology in its IoT network in major cities and many regional towns across the country.
The operator said the NB-IoT deployment...
Study finds China Mobile accounted for 32% of total cellular IoT connections at the end of Q3 2017
Mobile operators in China had more than 46% of global IoT cellular connections at the end of the third quarter of 2017, according to a recent study...
Local telco Proximus has selected Kerlink for the deployment of 800 stations
French firm Kerlink has obtained a contract to provide Belgian telecommunications company Proximus with 800 additional stations for the latter’s LoRaWAN IoT network in Belgium.
This new contract follows Proximus’s deployment of a LoRaWAN...
Vodafone launched the technology in Düsseldorf as part of an initiative to offer this service in 13 German cities by end-2018
Vodafone Germany has announced the activation of its NB-IoT network in Düsseldorf, German press reported. The NB-IoT launch is part of a wider program...
The telco aims to deploy 8,000 NB-IoT base stations in Q2 2018
Taiwan’s third-largest telecom operator Far EasTone Telecommunications has activated its Narrowband-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) network, Asian press reported.
The telco said it expects to reach 7,000 enterprise subscribers with this new offering within the...
