Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) protocol LoRa has notched up a significant network win this week, as Bouygues telecom announced the deployment of a national French network. In addition, Flashnet, a European provider of utility services, has announced that it has integrated LoRa into its inteliLIGHT smart city platform. French MNO and ISP Bouygues Telecom has picked LoRa for its own domestic IoT and M2M network offering. A founding member of the LoRa Alliance, the body that oversees LoRa itself, Bouygues says it will service 500 towns and cities by the end of the year. The Alliance has also just distributed the finalized version 1.0 of the LoRaWAN gateway protocol to its members. LoRa is the brand name for a chip-level…