The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has released a new report that points at the level of M2M and IoT adoption, with Europe leading the charge. With a focus on cellular M2M, the report doesn’t investigate LPWAN adoption. However, as the IoT in intrinsically data, and will appear most densely where there are more people, it is inextricably tied to the wider global adoption of the internet. In terms of coverage, the ITU says that 95% of the global population lives in an area that is covered by a mobile network, with 3G reaching 84% of the population (but only 67% of the world’s rural population). LTE networks have now reached 53% of the people, and if the vendor claims of…