{"id":87938,"date":"2019-02-21T18:54:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T10:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=236445"},"modified":"2019-02-21T18:54:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T10:54:22","slug":"gsma-hails-rapid-lpwa-network-uptake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/21\/gsma-hails-rapid-lpwa-network-uptake\/","title":{"rendered":"GSMA hails rapid LPWA network uptake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tLow Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks are now globally available on licensed spectrum in 49 markets around the world following launches on both LTE-M and NB-IoT technology by 50 different mobile operators, the GSMA announced.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement ahead of MWC19 Barcelona, the mobile industry association provided an update on current uptake of LPWA, stating there have been 93 launches of NB-IoT and LTE-M networks so far, with coverage expected to reach 93 per cent of the world\u2019s largest IoT markets by Q2.<\/p>\n<p>By 2025, GSMA Intelligence forecast there will be 3.5 billion cellular IoT connections, 1.9 billion of which will be on licensed LPWA technology.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking out the two major technologies, GSMA said there have been 68 NB-IoT launches in 45 markets and 25 launches of LTE-M networks in 19 markets.<\/p>\n<p>Upon initial launch of LPWA networks in 2017, NB-IoT proved to be the technology of choice in Europe while major players in North America pursued LTE-M. However, some operators have recently said they are also switching on LTE-M to run alongside NB-IoT, including European giants Vodafone Group [1] and Deutsche Telekom. [2]\n<p>Alex Sinclair, CTO of the GSMA, said the speed at which the networks \u201chave been standardised and deployed around the world is staggering\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are now available in every major IoT market encouraging the development of innovative new products and services across a wide range of sectors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the market clearly sees the benefits of solutions in licensed spectrum, which offer \u201cflexibility, adaptability, security and lower cost\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are also future-proofed for the 5G era and will support and co-exist with other 5G technologies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/home-banner\/vodafone-pushes-low-power-iot-rollouts\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/deutsche-telekom-preps-lte-m-ahead-of-2019-launch\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks are now globally available on licensed spectrum in 49 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/gsma-hails-rapid-lpwa-network-uptake\/\">GSMA hails rapid LPWA network uptake<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/21\/gsma-hails-rapid-lpwa-network-uptake\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2702,2,2305,3065,3222,2185,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-mSm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87939,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87938\/revisions\/87939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}