Analyst: Cable Industry Will be a Force in Growing IoT Opportunity – Telecompetitor
The firm says that Cox, Comcast, Dish Networks and similar companies are providing IoT services to businesses or have plans in the works to do so. “While cable companies provide consumer wireless services through ‘mobile virtual network operator’ relationships with mobile operators, they needed a different strategy for offering mobile IoT services to businesses,” said Kathryn Weldon, a technology analyst at GlobalData. “For example, Long range (LoRa) technology can be inexpensively set up (e.g., Comcast) through deployment of gateways from Wi-Fi Access Points.”
Satellite, Cable IoT Opportunities These providers can offer IoT services to their installed SMB base and may attract new customers looking for cost-effective platforms. Each provider has its own take, of course. Comcast is deploying gateways from its Wi-Fi Access Points, Cox is “network-agnostic” and Dish plans to build its own NB-IoT network on spectrum gained in public auctions.