There is an intriguing battle brewing in continental Europe for IoT wireless network supremacy, with a myriad of entrants small and large and an array of competing standards offering different tradeoffs. The latest company to offer city-wide coverage is Dutch telco KPN, which has announced a LoRa network to cover Rotterdam and The Hague, with a Netherlands-wide deployment expected by Q4 2016. In the US, Google Fiber recently launched its gigabit fiber service that covers Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, New York City and Washington, D.C. A rival crowdsourced network, The Things Network is already available in Amsterdam and Groningen.
There is an intriguing battle brewing in continental Europe for IoT wireless network supremacy, with a myriad of entrants small and large and an array of competing standards offering different tradeoffs. The latest company to offer city-wide coverage is Dutch telco KPN, which has announced a LoRa network to cover Rotterdam and The Hague, with a Netherlands-wide deployment expected by Q4 2016. Jacob Groote, Vice President of Operations at KPN commented: "We expect that LoRa is as big as the 3G and 4G mobile networks". A rival crowdsourced network, The Things Network is already available in Amsterdam and Groningen.