German Telecom Commercial NB-IoT in Eight European Countries This Year

Deutsche Telekom has announced that it will deploy a pan European NB-IoT commercial network, which will be launched in 8 European countries this year.

Deutsche Telekom will be the first in the second quarter of 2017 in the German commercial NB-IoT services, the next will be in Holland, Austria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Poland and other markets have launched. Which in the Holland market, Deutsche Telekom has confirmed a number of customers, including Indoor climate enterprise I tho Daalderop, railway maintenance enterprise Dual Inventive and the Sensor manufacturers Smartsensors.

In addition to the commercial deployment of NB-IoT, Deutsche Telekom will also expand its current networking plan to further develop NB-IoT ecosystem. A new project is the German Telecom NB-IoT prototype center, the center is located in Berlin and Krakow IoT laboratory based on the aim of the new cases to existing and potential customers with special IoT developers together to develop the technology. The project was launched in 2016, has attracted more than 100 developers.

In February this year, the German Telecom by way of the introduction of smart home platform in Slovakia and Norway market. As with the deployment of NB-IoT commercial networks, these two initiatives have shown the importance of the Internet of things in the German telecommunications strategy.

NB-IoT is one of several technologies which can meet the requirements of low power consumption and wide area network (LPWA). Compared with the traditional cellular standard, the technology can support the services such as intelligent measurement and asset tracking.

At present, some operators are actively deploying NB-IoT commercial, a few months ago, Vodafone began to invest in the NB-IoT bus, and in January this year in the Spanish market launched the first commercial NB-IoT network.