As entrenched U.S. MSOs like Comcast continue to push into the smart home market and emerging competitors like Altice are gearing up by partnering with IoT specialists like Sigfox, a battle over IoT standards is heating up between cellular technologies like LTE Cat M and proprietary technologies like LoRa.
There is a vast amount of options available and many that particularly suit different IoT use cases better than others. The question asked in FierceWireless:Europe's new special report is, how many of these various standards will exist in future? Will proprietary options eventually be pushed out by the cellular standards, or can a number of different standards continue to co-exist in future? Read more about it here.