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Some new-year reading, before the 2024 news agenda goes into over-drive; here, the enterprise team at RCR Wireless picks some choice long-form reports from 2023 about all-things IoT (low- and …

Semtech has enabled Sigfox ‘0G’ technology on its SX126x family of LoRa chipsets, for use with LoRaWAN or other LoRa-based networks. The SX126x series is the California firm’s ‘legacy hardware …

Based on his insights gained over the past decade, Kristoff Van Rattinghe, chief executive at Belgium-founded IoT tracking firm Sensolus, discusses how IoT technology is developing and the trends companies …

The total number of cellular IoT connections will reach around three billion at the end of 2023, reckons Ericsson, with most, and the increasing majority, connected on so-called ‘broadband’ cellular …

After a hectic 18 months, following its acquisition of French IoT networking company Sigfox in April last year, Taiwan-based Unabiz has been forced into a cost-cutting drive with “several dozen” …

Unabiz is to distribute a new Sigfox tracking solution for the postal industry in Europe. The solution has been developed by KYOCERA Communication Systems Company (KCCS), the Sigfox operator in …

Singapore-based Unabiz, owner of the Sigfox technology, has announced a deal with Shenzhen Kaifa Technology (KAIFA) to jointly sell Sigfox-based smart meters in global markets, and also to develop hybrid …

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 …

Another shot-of-life for ultra-narrowband IoT technology Sigfox, on life support 18 months ago, until Singapore-based firm Unabiz plowed-in money, reinvented its business model, embarked on a charm offensive, and breathed …

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 …

Multinational energy and petroleum company TotalEnergies has appointed the French division of Singapore-based Unabiz to install Sigfox-based IoT sensors in motorway service stations in Europe and Africa in order to …

European Sigfox operator Heliot Europe is ramping up its UK channel activity following its acquisition earlier this year of Sigfox networks in the UK and Ireland from Latin American Sigfox …

The big message from the big massacre in ‘massive’ IoT – which has seen high-takes vendors written-down and high-stakes gamblers written-off – is that it is not a massacre at …

The Mexican division of Latin American Sigfox operator WND has signed a deal with local metering outfit WaterMeter Corp to supply one million Sigfox water meters in the country over …

Heliot Europe, already the largest Sigfox operator in Europe, has said its new networks in the UK and Denmark have now been integrated into its infrastructure portfolio, which includes Sigfox …

And so it comes to pass; hybrid IoT devices running both LoRaWAN and Sigfox, once the bitterest rivals in the low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) game, will be available soon. US …

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 …

Patrick Griffin, Chief Product Officer, Heliot Europe, the largest Sigfox network operator in the European Union; here, he expands on the importance of the new unlicensed LPWAN working group proposing …

Busy Japan-based IoT connectivity provider Soracom has introduced three services to help IoT users to take advantage of new generative AI capabilities. The KDDI-owned firm said the trio of new …

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 …

UnaBiz has signed with KDDI-owned Soracom, an investor in and collaborator with the Singapore-based Sigfox-owner already, to resell its global cellular IoT airtime as part of its burgeoning ‘universal LPWAN’ …

Swiss security company Verisure has passed the five-million mark for Sigfox-enabled dual-connectivity Securitas Direct alarm systems, according to a social media post by Sigfox parent company Unabiz. The number covers …

The MIOTY Alliance, the industrial IoT group, formed in early 2020 by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) to shepherd its burgeoning MIOTY technology into the crowded low-power wide-area …

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 …

South Korean supply-chain pallet-pooling company AJ Networks has fitted 10,000 plastic pallets in its home country with Sigfox and WI-Fi combination trackers. The deal is with local Sigfox operator AMO-SNet; …