The Things Industries, the commercial wing that has emerged on the back of The Things Network community, has announced the Packet Broker – a system that might finally properly interconnect LoRaWAN networks across the globe. This could be a very big step forward if the business can convince network operators to get on board, but many networks are not going to jump ship from their own network servers. This Packet Broker is essentially a mechanism that creates the equivalent internet infrastructure that lets your PC or mobile device talk to the servers that host this article you are reading. There is a complex web of interconnection services between the minor and major ISPs, data centers, and backbone traffic providers, which…