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Over the last few years, asset tracking has emerged as a critical business function, and is estimated to grow to a $34.5 billion market by 2032, according to Custom Market …

In sum – what to know: Growth decade – IoT devices to hit 40.6bn by 2034, with cellular IoT tripling, non-cellular LPWA tech like LoRaWAN almost quadrupling, and short-range IoT …

Taiwanese advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and private network provider Ubiik has introduced a ‘5G’ IoT router for use with public, private, and satellite-based NB-IoT and LTE-M networks. The product, called …

MWC was strange for Sequans Communications last year; it was the week after its proposed $249 million sale to Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics was called off because of an “adverse …

A couple of items across the news desk this week about non-terrestrial network (NTN; satellite) extensions for cellular 5G-branded IoT connectivity: Luxembourg-based NTN-IoT startup OQ Technology has signed Aramco Digital …

AT&T has stopped selling NB-IoT data plans and certifying NB-IoT devices, as it starts the process to decommission its NB-IoT network in the US entirely. The decision was taken as …

UK-headquartered mobile operator Vodafone – or ‘Vodafone IoT’, or ‘Vodafone Business’, perhaps, or ‘Vodafone Business IoT’, as it is written in the press notice – is now connecting commercial integrated …

Total shipments of reduced-capability (RedCap) 5G IoT modules, offering 5G-based alternatives to mid-range 4G-level LTE Cat-4 and LTE Cat-6 units, will top 80 million over the next five years, in …

NB-IoT and LoRa-based IoT connectivity technologies have, and will continue to have, the lion’s share of the low-power wide-area (LPWA) end of the IoT networking market, reckons research house Omdia. …

An interesting angle came up last week in a webinar about smart metering, hosted by eSIM specialist Kigen, where Danish meter maker Kamstrup responded to a question about how utility …

French low-power IoT specialist Actility, operating and selling LoRaWAN infrastructure, has raised €16 million ($17.2m) in a new funding round to drive its own growth in the private networks space …

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 …

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 number of global IoT connections will grow at a compound rate of 10 percent per year (CAGR) over the next decade, almost tripling in the period, to reach 34.4 …

New research from analyst house Omdia says the number of low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT network connections will grow at a compound annual rate (CAGR) of 23 percent in the period …

Unabiz deserves credit; the Singapore-based IoT house, owner of the Sigfox technology for a little over 12 months, is doing what most of the IoT community has considered for some …

Unabiz has announced yet another deal in its unremitting pursuit of a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) mashup, as it seeks to add the telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB) standard, commercialised in the …

Sigfox parent Unabiz has continued to make good on its word to unify low-power wide-area (LPWA) network technologies by striking a deal with LoRaWAN network operator and system provider Senet …

Sigfox-parent UnaBiz and LoRaWAN group The Things Industries (TTI) – two companies that appear to be culturally aligned, albeit differently rooted in IoT; which appear to speak the same language, …

UK telecoms operator BT is offering a “new” national roaming service for IoT SIMs on its EE mobile network, plus on infrastructure managed by UK telco rivals and rented by …

Telekom Srbija (Telekom Serbia) is rolling out a new NB-IoT network to go alongside its public LoRaWAN network, to serve the country’s industrial firms, energy providers, cities and municipalities, and …

Massive IoT – or massive machine-type communications (mMTC) – is all around us. We live in a vast connected ecosystem of data-gathering applications that draw on comparatively low levels of …

The global market for wide-area RTA trackers, comprising low-power IoT trackers attached to returnable transport assets (RTAs) like multi-usage crates and containers, will reach 117.3 million connections by 2027, according …

Australian outfit Konvoy Group started three years ago, in the summer of 2019, as a keg rental business, offering logistics support to craft brewers in its home country. It has, …

A helpful snapshot of the developing IoT market, from a presentation at The Things Conference in Amsterdam a couple of weeks back; Paul Pinault, vice president of platform and market …