Sigfox and LoRa march onwards as Weightless releases dev kit; the race to gain a foothold before the arrival of the LTE equivalents

As the 3GPP pushes towards standardizing the LTE-based equivalents of the LPWAN technology used by a number of smaller companies in the IoT, the window is slowly closing for the likes of Sigfox and LoRa. While the MNOs wait for the 3GPP to set its standard in stone, the LPWAN players have free reign in the market to snap up as many customers as possible before the monolithic weight of the LTE market presence is brought to bear. Of course, many of the LPWAN vendors are involved in the 3GPP, and some of the MNOs are already investigating LPWAN deployments, so this isn’t as adversarial a contest as that first paragraph might make it sound. But since their emergence, the…