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 companies offering different tradeoffs . The latest company to offer city - wide coverage is Dutch telco KPN , which has launched a LoRa network to cover Rotterdam and The Hague , with a Netherlands - wide deployment expected by Q4 2016 . , allerlei kleine apparaten die de komende jaren massaal online gaan. Jacob Groote , Vice President of Operations at KPN said : " We hope that LoRa is as big as the 3 G and 4 G mobile networks " . A rival crowdsourced network , The Things , 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 companies offering different tradeoffs . The latest company to offer city - wide coverage is Dutch telco KPN , which has launched 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 said : " We hope that LoRa is as big as the 3 G and 4 G mobile networks " . A rival crowdsourced network , The Things , is already available in Amsterdam and Groningen .