September 2018

Detecon

Global Low Power Wide Area Network Coverage, Rollouts & Trends

Internet of Things (IoT) got a new strong momentum since beginning of 2018 with growing number of Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) rollouts. New use cases and implementations showing strong trend, where customers moving from Proof of concepts to Commercial usage of LPWAN.

Detecon LPWAN Radar brings on a quarterly basis unique centralized view on major mobile IoT/ sensor networks - LoRaWan, Sigfox, NB-IoT and LTE-M. Primary focus is on country coverages and new rollouts, but it will also cover related solutions and trends.

Detecon International GmbH. is one of the leading consultants in the area of Telecom- munication, Digitization, Internet of Things and IoT networks. Based in /Köln with presence across the whole Word, Detecon helps Telcos and Industrial clients with their digitization challenges. Licensed

32 Countries with LTE-M Networks mobile IoT LTE-M National 29 with NBIoT NB-IoT Networks 11 with LTE-M NB-IoT National www.gsma.com 9/2018 LTE-M & NB-IoT Network National Deployment

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partial coverage 50 countries full coverage

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35 countries with public network coverage

58 countries with other LoRaWAN deployment Alliance Member Public Networks Other LoRaWAN Deployment

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2 NB-IoT and LTE-M

Australia Australia Austria Belarus Belgium China China China Croatia Czech Republic

Telstra T-Mobile Velcom Orange China China China T-Mobile Vodafone Mobile Telecom Unicom

Denmark Denmark Finland Finland Finland Germany Germany Greece Hong Kong Hong Kong

TDC Telia DNA Elisa Telia T-Mobile Vodafone T-Mobile 3 China Mobile

Ireland Italy Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Singapore Singapore Slovakia South Africa

Vodafone Telecom Vodafone Vodafone Telia T-Mobile M1 Singapore SingTel T-Mobile Vodafone Italia

South Korea South Korea Spain Spain Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Sweden Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan

Korea Telecom LGU+ Telefonica Vodafone Dialog Ataxia Mobitel Telia APTG Chunghwa FarEasTone Telecom

Thailand Thailand The Nether- Australia Belgium Japan Mexico Netherlands North America North America lands AIS True Telstra Orange KDDI AT&T KPN AT&T Verizon Corporation T-Mobile Corporation

Singapore Sri Lanka Taiwan Turkey UAE NB-IoT SingTel Dialog APTG Turkcell Etisalat LTE-M Ataxia

• and Vodafone Group complete successful NB-IoT roaming trial in Europe. The trial was performed using global SIMs from Deutsche Telekom on Vodafone Spain’s network and global Vodafone SIMs on T-Mobile Austria’s network and commercial NB-IoT modules.

• Ericsson expects most global operators to deploy both NB-IoT and LTE-M in parallel from 2019. Operators would no longer be deciding between the two technologies as has been the case over the past two years.

• AT&T announced plans to roll out a new NB-IoT network in the US and Mexico, a move it said will add more deployment options to complement the offerings already available on its LTE-M network.

• GSMA announces winners of 2018 Asia Mobile Awards: China Telecom and Huawei for NB-IoT and IoT platform commercialization

• Telit provides LTE-M Module for NTT DoCoMo smart cities trial in the Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town trial.

3 Sigfox

• Sigfox Connect - the fl ag ship event of Sigfox will take place 24-25 of October 2018 in expecting more than 150 booths and 2000 visitors from the IoT industry.

• French tire manufacturer Michelin, together with compatriot IoT connectivity provider Sigfox, has launched a new solution for tracking sea-freight containers.

• Sigfox USA announces Coverage as a Service (CaaS), a simple self-install kit including a base station that provides coverage where a customer needs it.

• LITE-ON cooperates with STMicroelectronics to bring Ultra-Low-Power Sigfox-Verifi ed Modules to the IoT Market.

• Sigfox has signed network contract in several new countries in the middle of the year according to Detecon market information. Public announcement from Sigfox is expected at the beginning of Q4/2018

4 LoRa

Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Canada China Cook Islands Czech Republic

Defi nium Microtronics Proximus Everynet Eleven-x Sensoro KotahiNet Ceske Technologies Engineering Technology Radiokomunikace

Estonia Finland France Germany Hungary India Ireland Italy

Levikom Eesti Digita Objenious digimondo Antenna SenRa Tech Trinity College A2A Smart City Hungaria.Co. Dublin

Japan Luxembourg Netherlands New Zealand Norway Oman Russia Saudi Arabia

Nippon Proximus KPN KotahiNet IoT Networks Ooredoo Oman Enforta Machines Talk

Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand

Slovanet Solvery Lynx FastNet Dreamline Blink Services Gemtek CAT Telecom Technology

Tunisia United States United States countries with public Ooredoo Tunisia Stream machineQ Technologies LoRa network coverage

• LoRaWAN™ LIVE & LoRa Alliance Members Meeting will take place in Tokyo, Japan on 23-25 October 2018. LoRaWAN LIVE will be a special 1-day program focused on advancing business development opportunities across LPWA ecosystem and will be open also for end-users of LoRaWAN. • Google Cloud joins LoRa Alliance as sponsor member, backing the open LoRa standard. Google Cloud’s participation in the LoRa Alliance should strengthen the effort to realize value from IoT data. • SenRa, a PAN India LPWAN provider, has partnered with PNI Sensor to bring smart parking solutions to cities across India. The solution combines LoRaWAN™ technology, connectivity and an end-to-end Smart Parking solution, for precision location, motion tracking and sharing of data associated with open parking spaces. • Orange Moldova and the water utility SA Apa Canal cooperating to create and implement a new smart waste consumption solution including also fast detection and reporting of leaks and malfunction based on LoRaWAN in Moldova. • Actility has struck a deal with mapping and location company HERE Technologies to integrate HERE’s positioning capabilities into its own LoRaWAN management platform. It should mean that users can “pinpoint” their assets accurately and continuo- usly in both indoor and outdoor environments.

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Vit Soupal Christian Schilling Milad Hanna-Kleigrewe Managing Consultant Senior Consultant Partner Detecon International GmbH Detecon International GmbH Detecon International GmbH Sternengasse 14 - 16 Dingolfi nger Str. 1-15 Sternengasse 14 - 16 50676 Köln 81673 München 50676 Köln

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