The significance of European standards institute ETSI in mobile history can scarcely be overstated, going right back to 1992 when it took over stewardship of GSM, establishing European leadership in cellular platforms and almost achieving a global unified standard. So it is an optimistic sign for the fledgling and fragmented LPWAN (low power wide area networks) sector that several candidate technologies are aligning with one another and with ETSI’s work in this area. The Weightless special interest group (SIG) is moving its Weightless-N technology into ETSI’s LTN (Low Throughput Network) initiative, which is already supported by Sigfox. Meanwhile, Telensa, which uses an UltraNarrowBand (UNB) technology developed by Plextek, is to join the Weightless SIG board. Others among the many flavors…