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...
IoT is an emerging technology currently in piloting and live implementation phase at a number of operators across the globe. IoT is expected to multiply the number of mobile connections in coming years, being one of the main growth initiatives for operators and network...
Orange said new infrastructure will enable nationwide NB-IoT and LTE-M services in Belgium
Orange Belgium announced that its new internet of things (IoT) network has reached full coverage to support the massive deployment of IoT solutions across the country.
Orange announced the availability of narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT)...
Deutsche Telekom said 150 firms are currently testing NB-IoT technology
German telecommunications operator Deutsche Telekom said its NB-IoT network is already available at approximately 300 locations across Germany including Berlin/Potsdam, Cologne/Bonn, the Ruhr basin, Mannheim/Heidelberg and Stuttgart.
Deutsche Telekom plans to complete the network's country-wide build...
China Mobile plans to offer subsidies to IoT makers in order to foster the domestic IoT ecosystem
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, announced plans to invest approximately $300 million to subsidize IoT makers as part of a push to build...
Deutsche Telekom's new facility in Dortmund will be open for companies willing to collaborate in the development of IoT prototypes
German telecomd group Deutsche Telekom and the Fraunhofer-Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML, based in Dortmund, announced the foundation of the Telekom Open IoT...
IoT is an emerging technology currently in piloting and live implementation phase at a number of operators across the globe. IoT is expected to multiply the number of mobile connections in coming years, being one of the main growth initiatives for operators and network...
Gigabit LTE joins previous Ericsson, Swisscom demos of 5G network slicing and NB-IoT
Swiss telecommunications provider Swisscom has selected Ericsson for the implementation of a complete digital transformation process as well as future deployments of gigabit LTE and 5G
The deployment of Swisscom’s gigabit LTE...
Deutsche Telekom's smart city plan includes the deployment of connected street lights and smart waste containers
Deutsche Telekom and the municipal government of Bonn have kicked off a program to deploy smart city initiatives across the German city.
Under the smart city program, Deutsche Telekom will...
Under the 'Thinx’ program, the Spanish telco plans to open IoT labs in Europe and Latin America
Spanish telecom operator Telefonica has launched what it calls "The Thinx," an initiative to promote an open ecosystem for the development of internet of things (IoT) through experimentation...
Vodacom said its network was adding nearly 55,000 new IoT connections per month
South African telecom group Vodacom confirmed its narrowband internet of things network is now operational in Gauteng. The telco said the commercial rollout of NB-IoT is expected to accelerate internet of things...
Vodafone said it will test NB-IoT applications with a number of partners
U.K.-based telecoms group Vodafone has confirmed it is working with Dublin City Council (DCC) to test narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) sensors in the Docklands Smart District as part of the wider Smart...
Huawei is using NB-IoT and LPWA to improve water metering and improve piping management
Huawei Japan and Japanese firm Aichi Tokei Denki confirmed they will expand their efforts in verifying NB-IoT technologies for smart water metering.
The two companies will utilize NB-IoT and LPWA to realize...
The Nordic telco said it aims to launch commercial services based on NB-IoT in the coming months
Telia Finland is conducting its first live network tests of NB-IoT and LTE-M technologies for the internet of things (IoT). The Nordic telecoms group said the projects have...
Ericsson will provide IoT and 5G-related equipment and software for a total of $471 million
Ericsson has signed an agreement with Russian operator MTS to modernize the telco’s network infrastructure in order to pave the way for future IoT and 5G deployments.
Under the terms of...
A conversation with Asha Keddy, Vice President of Next Generation and Standards, Intel
The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and access the complete report “Wireless in the Enterprise”
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