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2 Countries Announce Nationwide Internet Of Things Networks
- IoT Tech, Wednesday, July 6, 2016 10:57 AM
It was a close run contest – but the Netherlands beat South Korea to announcing a nationwide network for the Internet of Things (IoT) by four days. On June 30, KPN announced the deployment of a network based on the LoRa standard, which went live in November 2015 in Rotterdam and The Hague, with a rapid rollout beginning in early 2016, while on July 4 SK Telecom unveiled its grand plans for a nationwide LPWAN (low power wide area network) LoRa IoT network. For the Netherlands, KPN already has 1.5 million ‘devices’ connected to the network and this figure is expected to grow fast on account of the presence of the network across the country.
