The Weightless SIG (special interest group) has had limited success in establishing its technology as a de facto standard for low power wide area networks (LPWANs). But it continues to push on multiple fronts for a significant role in the Internet of Things (IoT) and was vocal at last week’s CTIA show, announcing commercial products based on its newest specification, Weightless-P, which it claims can address a far wider range of LPWA use cases than the cellular solutions. This push involves two of its three platforms (the first has been almost shelved as it focused on white space spectrum, which is not available in many countries). The other two are Weightless-N, an ultranarrowband (UNB) implementation based on technology from Nwave.…