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| December 22, 2015

Vodafone Spain, Huawei and u-blox have completed the first successful commercial trial of pre-standard NB-IoT (Narrowband Internet of Things). NB-IoT is a new technology that will extend the utilization of Internet of Things (IoT) by making it more efficient to connect objects requiring a long battery life and are located in hard to reach areas to the Internet by ways of mobile connectivity. Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technology will connect more objects to the Internet of Things....

| December 21, 2015

Vodafone and Huawei say they have completed the first commercial trial of pre-standard Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) technology. NB-IoT is a proposed standard for Low Power Wide Area (LPWA), which makes it more efficient to connect devices that require long battery life or are in hard to reach areas using existing cellular networks. It is claimed NB-IoT is able to provide a battery life of ten years, costs $5 per module to deploy and has scalability, while at the same tim...

| December 28, 2015

Telefonica announced that it's now offering LTE connections as part of its Smart m2m Solution, the operator's platform for IoT connectivity, management and control which counts with over 1,000 worldwide customers. The company said customers are asking for 4G connections in order to serve high-bandwidth applications like infotainment in cars and for low-power, low-data usage for machine-to-machine communications. The latter is being developed by 3GPP under the LTE-M standard....

VODAFONE, Huawei | January 01, 2016

VODAFONE, Huawei and u-blox have successfully trialled a more efficient, mobile Internet of Things connectivity technology in Spain. The commercial trial of pre-standard NB-IoT (Narrowband Internet of Things) technology promises to extend the Internet of Things (IoT) by making it more efficient to connect objects to the internet which are in areas hard to reach by mobile connectivity or that require a long battery life. NB-IoT promises to achieve up to 10 years’ battery life and dee...