A mobile traffic forecast from Cisco calls for that traffic to reach nearly a zettabyte annually by 2022, representing one-fifth of all global IP traffic. The 930 exabytes of mobile traffic expected by 2022 is almost 113 times more than…
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Ericsson: Mobile Data Traffic Growth Reaches 8.6 Gigabytes per Smartphone per Month
Mobile data traffic growth was almost 79% year on year in the third quarter of 2018, according to Ericsson’s Mobility Report. The increase, the highest since 2013, was driven by increased data traffic per smartphone in northeast Asia, which includes…
Who Needs Spectrum? Cable LoRaWAN Well Suited for Smart Cities, NCTA Says
Cable companies are “uniquely well suited” to partner with municipalities on smart city projects, according to a new report from NCTA – The Internet & Television Association. Initially, this might seem a stretch, considering that smart cities will rely heavily…
Twilio, T-Mobile Partnering on NB-IoT
Twilio has created a developers’ platform for T-Mobile’s Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) network. The Twilio, T-Mobile announcement was made at Twilio’s customer and developers’ conference. The goal is to develop applications for NB-IoT, which are aimed at using less battery power…
Comcast MachineQ IoT Offering Gains Five New Customers
Comcast’s machine enterprise IoT service has announced several new clients. Comcast machineQ is a scalable, B2B platform that uses LoRaWAN low power wide-area network (LPWAN) technology. Comcast is one of many cable MSOs who are aiming to seize on the…
Report: LTE Market Share Hits 76% in U.S. and Canada with 365 Million LTE Connections
More than one third (38.5%) of all wireless cellular technology worldwide used LTE in the first quarter of 2018, according to new LTE market share data from 5G Americas and Ovum. North America dominates the LTE landscape, with a penetration…
AT&T NB-IoT Network Will Co-Exist with LTE-M
AT&T plans to launch a narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) network in the U.S. early next year. The launch will offer an alternative to the company’s existing LTE-M network, which also supports IoT communications. AT&T NB-IoT As AT&T explained in…
T-Mobile Magenta Offers NB-IoT Connectivity for $6 a Year
T-Mobile has launched Magenta, a Narrow Band-IoT-based platform for connecting and coordinating IoT devices. The T-Mobile Magenta service will cost $6 per year for up to 12 MB per connected device under terms of a special offer. NB-IoT is an…
M2M Connections Forecast to Exceed 300 Million by 2022, But Distractions Pose Challenges
The U.S. cellular M2M market will grow beyond 300 million connections by 2022, according to a M2M connections forecast from ABI Research. In a press release announcing its latest findings, the research firm said that new competition is emerging as…
Comcast MachineQ IoT Platform Extended to 12 Markets
Comcast announced yesterday that it has extended the Comcast MachineQ IoT (Internet of Things) platform to 12 additional U.S. markets. MachineQ uses LoRaWAN protocol to support widely distributed IoT endpoints. The LoRa technology, which is being supplied by Semtech, meets…
Pew: Given the Inevitably of IoT Security Breaches, Are We Getting Ahead of Ourselves?
Deployments of “Internet of Things” (IoT) connections, devices and networks will continue to multiply over the next few years despite growing privacy threats and the prospect of opening up billions of new routes for cyber-crackers and hackers to exploit, according…
Report: IoT Security Breaches Are Costly, With Smaller Companies at Great Risk
Security systems protecting nearly half (48%) of organizations’ Internet of Things (IoT) networks have been breached at least once, according to an IoT security survey from Altman Vilandrie. Overall, the cost of the IoT security breaches represented 13.4 percent of…
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