Dutch telco KPN has announced that its plans for a national LoRa network have been moved up a gear – promising to complete the network in the first half of 2016, rather than by the end of the year as initially planned. Also down in New Zealand this week, KotahiNet has just completed its LoRa deployment in Wellington. Working with Actility, a company that also offers energy management systems to utilities, the pair have so far covered Rotterdam and The Hague. They report that demand for LoRa in the Netherlands has been bigger than initially expected, and so poles in the rest of the country will be equipped with LoRa antennae in the “very short term.” For KPN, the addition…