In what promises to be the biggest LPWAN deployment to date, Indian telco Tata Communications has announced that following successful trials based on LoRa technology, it plans to roll out the first LoRa network in India – with Phase 1 covering 400m people, from Tier 1 to Tier 4 cities. If Tata follows up on its promise, this a huge win for LoRa – with that 400m larger than its collective population coverage to date. Full Indian coverage would extend that to 1.2bn people, although being the seventh-largest country by area, realistically it’s unlikely even a very expansive rollout would not manage to achieve universal coverage. Nonetheless, this is a very big deal, which is why it’s a little disappointing…