LoRaWAN, que je t’aime – Orange reaffirms LoRa affair, keeps the WAN in LoRaWAN
Mobile operator Orange has reaffirmed its support for LoRaWAN in France “until at least 2027”, committing to maintain the non-cellular technology as a terrestrial IoT network with nationwide coverage in the country of its birth – even as cellular 5G expands as an IoT workhorse in the medium term. It went so far as to suggest LoRaWAN is better than its cellular equivalents, NB-IoT and LTE-M, for battery-powered IoT, and name-checked Microsoft and Amazon as colaborators with Orange in the LoRa Alliance.
The message from Orange, responding to an appeal for clarification from Enterprise IoT Insights after fellow operator Bouygues Telecom announced it will shut down its LoRaWAN network in France from 2024, and stop selling LoRaWAN immediately, goes some way to resolve a dramatic untangling of French-born unlicensed IoT, which has also seen Toulouse-based Sigfox go into receivership and bankruptcy in France and the US, respectively.
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