This week has seen SK Telecom announce the pricing scheme for its national machine-to-machine (M2M) network, which is based on the LoRa technology. The cheapest plan clocks in at $0.30 for 100KB of data per month, for metering apps, and the most expensive is priced at $1.75 for 100MB. This got us thinking – on what method is the IoT going to settle for charging for the data it consumes? The IoT is a digital construct – the sum of components made in silicon foundries and hashed out in labs, but essentially data, generated by the ‘things’ that are connected in labyrinthine manner. The crux of the challenge is to move all that data from one point to another (in…