CWN(CHANGE WITH NEWS) - GSMA, Low Power Mobile IoT Networks Now Available from All Leading IoT Operators Worldwide

The GSMA today announced that Mobile IoT or Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks are now globally available in licensed spectrum in 49 markets[1] around the world following 93 launches by 50 different mobile operators across both LTE-M and NB-IoT. Coverage is now expected to reach approximately 93% of the world’s largest IoT markets by Q2 2019[2]. According to GSMA Intelligence forecasts, by 2025 there will be 3.5 billion cellular IoT connections, including 1.9 billion licensed LPWA connections[3].

“The speed with which these networks have been standardized and deployed around the world is staggering. They are now available in every major IoT market encouraging the development of innovative new products and services across a wide range of sectors,” commented Alex Sinclair, Chief Technology Officer, GSMA. “The market clearly sees the benefit of solutions in licensed spectrum that offer flexibility, adaptability, security and lower cost. They are also future proofed for the 5G era and will support and co-exist with other 5G technologies.”

Mobile IoT Global Adoption

To date there have been 68 NB-IoT launches in 45 markets and 25 launches of LTE-M networks in 19 markets. This is supported by a network of 47 Open Labs worldwide enabling organisations to test their products and services prior to launch. Recent launches in Q4 2018 in Europe include Altice (Portugal; NB-IoT), Orange, (France and Romania; LTE-M), Telenor Group (Norway; NB-IoT, LTE-M), Telia (Estonia; NB-IoT), SFR (France; NB-IoT), Swisscom (Switzerland; NB-IoT, LTE-M) and Vodafone (Malta; NB-IoT). In Asia, Grameenphone (Bangladesh; NB-IoT), Chungwa (Taiwan; LTE-M), Telkomsel (Indonesia; NB-IoT) and Megafon and MTS (Russia; NB-IoT). Verizon and Spark also launched LTE-M in North America and New Zealand respectively, while STC launched NB-IoT in Saudi Arabia and Telefonica launhed LTE-M in Argentina.

The GSMA Mobile IoT Innovators Community

The GSMA Mobile IoT Innovators community has also reached 2,100 developers from more than 1,300 companies around the world. The official community is an ecosystem that unites operators, vendors, manufacturers and developers around LPWA technologies in licensed spectrum and supports the development and creation of innovative new products and services that utilize these technologies. Please find out more at the Mobile IoT Experience at 4YFN MWC’19 go here for further information: https://www.gsma.com/iot/mobile-iot-innovators

The GSMA Mobile IoT Initiative and APAC IoT Partnership Programme

Backed by over 100 mobile operators and vendors, the GSMA’s Mobile IoT Initiative[4] has helped to align the mobile industry behind licensed, standardized and complementary Low Power, Wide Area (LPWA) technologies called LTE-M and NB-IoT. These Mobile IoT networks support mass-market IoT applications such as smart meters, environmental sensors and consumer electronics, that are low cost, use low data rates, require long battery lives and often operate in remote locations. They are designed to support mass-market IoT applications across a wide variety of applications such as industrial asset tracking, safety monitoring, water and gas metering, smart grids, city parking, vending machines and city lighting. The GSMA also recently launched the GSMA APAC IoT Partnership programme to help mobile operators and partners in the Asia-Pacific region to accelerate the adoption of IoT by facilitating the sharing of innovation and ideas, promoting regional leadership and providing access to open labs to test new use cases. The GSMA has also released a document highlighting some innovative LTE-M and NB-IoT use cases in Asia: https://www.gsma.com/iot/mobile-iot-asia-pacific-case-study/

IoT Security at MWC19

The GSMA Internet of Things will also host a seminar on IoT Security titled, ‘Future Proofing the Internet of Things - IoT Security Today and Tomorrow’ on February 26th at the Fira Gran Via. The in-depth session will see industry experts debate the importance of IoT security and examine how security must be embedded from the beginning and during every stage of the service lifecycle. The GSMA IoT Security Guidelines and Security Assessment have become the leading industry specification for securing IoT products and services, with 15 global operators adopting them in 2018.

Mobile IoT at MWC19

The GSMA’s Internet of Things programme will also host a number of activities at this year’s MWC19 in Barcelona, including the 8th Mobile IoT Summit on February 24th at the Hesperia Barcelona Tower Hotel. The session will include IoT experts from AT&T, Huawei, Nokia, Singtel and Telefonica and explore how mobile operators and the wider ecosystem have successfully deployed Mobile IoT solutions. Please go here to register: https://www.gsma.com/iot/event/8th-mobile-iot-summit/. There will also a number of interactive Mobile IoT demonstrations at the GSMA Innovation City in Hall 4.

Get Involved at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2019

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1.) AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA, BELARUS, BELGUIM, BRAZIL, CANADA, CHINA, CROATIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, DENMARK, FINLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, GREECE, HONG KONG, HUNGARY, INDONESIA, IRELAND, ITALY, JAPAN, MALTA, MEXICO, NEW ZEALAND, NORWAY, POLAND, RUSSIA, SAUDI ARABIA, SINGAPORE, SLOVAKIA, SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH KOREA, SPAIN, SRI LANKA, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND, TAIWAN, THAILAND, THE NETHERLANDS, TURKEY, UAE, USA.

2.) GSMA Intelligence: Top 50 countries have been identified based on number of licenced cellular IoT connections

3.) GSMA Intelligence

4.) The GSMA Mobile IoT Initiative: The GSMA’s Mobile IoT Initiative is helping to support the industry deliver commercial LPWA solutions in licensed spectrum. It is currently backed by over 90 global mobile operators, device makers and chipset, module and infrastructure companies worldwide. In the space of a year it has helped to establish market standards for LPWA, published by 3GPP, that will play a fundamental role in the growth, development and adoption of the technology as well as securely and cost effectively connect the billions of new devices making up the IoT. LPWA networks will be used for a wide variety of applications such as industrial asset tracking, safety monitoring, water and gas metering, smart grids, city parking, vending machines and city lighting.

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GSMA(세계이동통신사업자협회)가 LTE-M 및 NB-IoT(협대역사물인터넷)에서 50개 이동통신사업자가 93개의 서비스를 출시한 데 이어 전 세계 49개 시장[1]의 라이선스 스펙트럼에서 모바일 사물인터넷(IoT)이나 저전력 광역통신 기술(LPWA) 네트워크를 이용할 수 있게 되었다고 21일 발표했다.

서비스 대상범위는 2019년 2분기까지 세계에서 최대 규모 IoT 시장의 약93 %에 달할 것으로 예상되고 있다[2]. GSMA 인텔리전스(GSMA Intelligence)가 예측한 바에 따르면 2025년까지는 19억 회선의 인가된 저전력 광역 통신기술(LPWA) 연결을 포함해 셀룰러 IoT 연결이 35억 회선에 이를 것으로 보인다[3].

GSMA의 최고기술책임자(CTO)인 알렉스 싱클레어(Alex Sinclair)는 “전 세계적으로 이 네트워크들이 표준화되어 보급되는 속도는 실로 대단하다”며 “현재 광범위한 산업부문 전반에 걸쳐 혁신적인 신제품과 서비스 개발을 북돋우면서 모든 주요 IoT 시장에서 이 네트워크들을 이용할 수 있다”고 말했다. 이어 “시장에서 유연성과 적응성, 보안 및 비용 절감이 가능한 라이선스 스펙트럼에서 솔루션이 제공하는 이점은 분명한 것으로 나타났다”며 “또한 이 솔루션들은 5G 시대의 입증된 미래이며 다른 5G기술과 공존하면서 이를 지원하게 된다”고 덧붙였다.

모바일 IoT의 글로벌 채택

지금까지 45개 시장에서 68건의 NB-IoT 출시가 있었고 19개 시장에서 25건의 LTE-M 네트워크가 출시되었다. 이는 기업들이 출시 전에 제품 및 서비스를 시험해 볼 수 있게 해주는 전 세계 47개 개방형 연구소(Open Labs) 네트워크의 지원을 받았다.

2018년 4분기에 유럽에서는 알티스(Altice, 포르투갈, NB-IoT), 오렌지(Orange, 프랑스 및 루마니아, LTE-M), 텔레노어 그룹(Telenor Group, 노르웨이, NB-IoT, LTE-M), 텔리아(Telia, 에스토니아, NB-IoT), SFR (프랑스, NB-IoT), 스위스콤(Swisscom, 스위스, NB-IoT, LTE-M) 및 보다폰(Vodafone, 몰타; NB-IoT)이, 아시아에서는 그라민폰(Grameenphone, 방글라데시, NB-IoT), 청와(Chungwa, 대만, LTE-M), 텔콤셀(Telkomsel, 인도네시아, NB-IoT), 메가폰(Megafon) 및 MTS (러시아, NB-IoT) 등이 서비스를 출시하는 한편 버라이즌(Verizon)과 스파크(Spark)도 북미와 뉴질랜드에서 각각 LTE-M을 출시했고 STC는 사우디아라비아에서 NB-IoT를, 텔레포니카(Telefonica는 아르헨티나에서 LTE-M을 출시했다.

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