Last week, Serbia’s state-owned mobile operator, Telekom Srbija (TS), announced the launch of a wide area IoT network supporting dual technologies – NB-IoT and LoRaWAN – an approach that remains unusual among MNOs. It is deploying the network with two partners, French IoT platform provider Actility and Belgrade-based systems integrator Teri Engineering. The deal will see TS expand on its existing LoRaWAN network, which runs in unlicensed spectrum, upgrading cell sites so they can also support NB-IoT, which is based on 3GPP 4G standards and runs in licensed frequencies. The dual-mode approach maximizes the spectrum that TS can use for IoT, and enables it to support a range of different applications with different connectivity requirements. The operator has been operating…