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New GSMA Report Predicts Chinese IoT Market Will Exceed One Billion Connections by 2020, Underpinned by Licensed Low Power, Wide Area Market
China's machine-to-machine (M2M) market will reach one billion
connections by 2020, with the majority coming from the developing Low
Power, Wide Area (LPWA) market, according to a new report released today
by GSMA (News - Alert) Intelligence and The China Academy of Information and
Communications Technology (CAICT). The report, 'Mobile Operators and
Digital Transformation', highlights that China is currently the
world's largest M2M market with approximately 100 million cellular M2M
connections, a figure that is expected to increase to 350 million by
2020. However, an additional 730 million connections will be enabled by
LPWA technology, taking the total figure to just over one billion. By
2025, it is expected that 50 per cent of the world's 28 billion
connected devices will be suitable for connection by LPWA networks.
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"With government support, China has quickly become the world's largest
M2M market, and LPWA will play a fundamental part of its future growth,
presenting new opportunities for key industry sectors and for operators
to provide connectivity across the country," said Alex Sinclair, Chief
Technology Officer, GSMA. "The GSMA's Mobile IoT Initiative is working
with China's mobile network operators to deliver commercial LPWA
solutions in licensed spectrum to accelerate adoption and transform the
development of the Internet of Things in areas such as agriculture,
automotive and utilities."
LPWA networks are designed for M2M applications that have low data
rates, require long battery lives and operate unattended for long
periods of time, often in remote locations. The GSMA Mobile IoT
Initiative has coalesced the industry behind global technology standards
in licensed spectrum for the LPWA market, which have now been published
by 3GPP. Three complementary technologies - Narrow Band IoT (NB-IoT),
EC-GSM-IOT and LTE Machine Type Communication (LTE-MTC) - will cover all
LPWA use cases, ensuring customer choice and helping the IoT market to
flourish.
Licensed LPWA networks complement and extend conventional wide area
networks, which make use of 2G and 4G cellular technologies, as well as
local area networks such as WiFi (News - Alert), Bluetooth and Zigbee. These licensed
standards allow operators t optimise their existing mobile network
infrastructure through an upgrade to EC-GSM-IoT for 2G networks and
LTE-MTC for LTE networks, while NB-IoT can use both 2G and 4G spectrum.
Backed by 36 global mobile operators, device makers and chipset, module
and infrastructure companies, the GSMA Mobile IoT initiative is working
to accelerate the development of LPWA solutions and is supporting
multiple global pilots with full commercial solutions expected in market
later this year.
LPWA at Mobile World Congress (News - Alert) Shanghai
There will a number of demonstrations of LPWA technology at the GSMA
Innovation City at Mobile World Congress Shanghai, located in Hall N3
(Stands A38 and E37) at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre.
Visitors will be able to experience how LPWA networks in licenced
spectrum are connecting up everything from pets to street lighting. It
will be open during Mobile World Congress Shanghai exhibition hours from
Wednesday, 29 June through Friday, 1 July. For more information, visit www.mwcshanghai.com/innovation-city/.
The GSMA will also host an IoT Summit on Thursday, 30 June at The Kerry
Hotel, Shanghai where delegates will hear from leading industry experts
on the latest on Mobile IoT industry applications and technologies. For
more information or to register, please visit www.gsma.com/connectedliving/events/.
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To download the GSMA Intelligence report, 'Mobile operators and digital
transformation' please follow
this link.
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