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Backed by Mobile Operators, OEMs and IoT Companies, \u2018Mobile IoT Initiative\u2019 Will Help Accelerate LPWA Market with Commercial Solutions Expected in 2016<\/em>
\nAugust 20 2015, London<\/strong>: The GSMA has today announced that it has established the \u2018Mobile IoT Initiative\u2019, a new project backed by 26 of the world\u2019s leading mobile operators, OEMs, chipset, module and infrastructure companies, designed to address the use of Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) solutions in licensed spectrum. The new group will work to accelerate the commercial availability of mobile IoT technology by facilitating demonstrations, proofs of concept and trials of a selection of complementary LPWA licensed spectrum technologies. It will also provide analysis and feedback to assist 3GPP in standardising the technologies. It is expected that initial specifications for LPWA solutions will be completed by the end of 2015, with a first implementation in early 2016 and full commercial solutions following later in the year.
\nLPWA networks are designed for machine-to-machine (M2M) applications that have low data rates, long battery lives and that operate unattended for long periods of time. It is an emerging area of the Internet of Things (IoT) and represents a huge market opportunity as the IoT scales. Analyst firms including Analysys Mason, Machina Research and Strategy Analytics anticipate that there will be 2.7 billion LPWA connections by 2022.
\n\u201cThe market opportunity for LPWA will be a significant driver in the development of the IoT and it\u2019s essential that the mobile industry address the requirements for LPWA cases early on,\u201d said Alex Sinclair, Acting Director General and Chief Technology Officer, GSMA. \u201cThe industry is clearly united behind the Mobile IoT Initiative, providing a common vision to accelerate the availability of industry standard solutions, removing market fragmentation and accelerating adoption.\u201d
\nComplementary Technologies Using Licensed Spectrum<\/strong><\/em>
\nA single technology is not capable of addressing all of the LPWA use cases and so the initiative will focus on three proposed complementary licensed 3GPP standards: LTE Evolutions, GSM evolutions and Clean Slate technologies. LPWA technologies in licensed spectrum can be deployed in a simplified and cost-effective manner, without sacrificing key customer requirements, such as battery lifetime and security.
\nMobile operators already provide reliable end-to-end IoT platforms that allow customers to scale and manage their business requirements. They also have unrivalled global network coverage as well as technical and business support to react to a customer\u2019s changing needs.<\/em>
\nWide Industry Support<\/strong><\/em>
\nThe initiative has been backed by key industry players including AT&T, Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Canada, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Etisalat, Huawei, Gemalto, Intel, KDDI, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Ooredoo, Orange,
\nQualcomm Incorporated, Sierra Wireless, Singtel, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telenor, Telstra, u-blox and Vodafone.
\n\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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