Unlicensed IoT Tech Speeding Ahead LTE-M And NB-IoT | TricksTrend
“Sigfox, a communications technology company in IoT, is the parent of the market and surpassed competing mobile operators in terms of technology,” says ABI Research.
This morning during a briefing release, a consultant said, “By 2017, SIGFOX had majority shares of public Low Powered Wide Area around the world, with mover benefit in Europe.”
The research team also mentioned that private LPWA networks built by IoT clients without mobile networks attributed for 93% of connections in 2017.
This is bad news for the mobile network operators, who have their IoT connectivity hopes on LTE-M and NB-IoT specs. Both operate on the licensed spectrum, while the private networks that use standards such as Sigfox and its LoRaWAN competitor, utilize unlicensed band, depending on the low possibility of intervention to keep up quality service.