EchoStar Mobile and Actility Expand LoRaWAN IoT Coverage for Swisscom
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EchoStar Mobile, an EchoStar company (Nasdaq: SATS), has announced a partnership with Swisscom, Switzerland's leading ICT firm, to expand Swisscom's LoRaWAN IoT footprint across Europe. Leveraging satellite connectivity, EchoStar Mobile will support direct sensor-to-satellite operations, while Actility will facilitate seamless network integration between terrestrial and satellite networks through its ThingPark Exchange roaming hub. This collaboration enables Swisscom to offer borderless IoT connectivity, enhancing services for smart metering, environmental monitoring, agriculture, and more. EchoStar Mobile will provide multi-year IoT satellite connectivity services to Swisscom, promising expansive and reliable coverage.
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Positive
- Swisscom can now offer seamless integration of terrestrial and satellite networks, improving IoT service delivery across Europe.
- EchoStar Mobile provides multi-year IoT satellite connectivity services, ensuring long-term support and expansion.
- The partnership allows Swisscom to deliver carrier-grade services in remote and economically challenging areas.
- Swisscom's customers can now roll out IoT devices with borderless connectivity, enhancing business opportunities.
- EchoStar Mobile enhances Swisscom's service offering with low-power, long-range LoRa® technology.
Negative
- Reliance on satellite connectivity may introduce higher operational costs for Swisscom.
- Integration of new technologies might present initial technical challenges and require additional resources.
News Market Reaction – SATS
On the day this news was published, SATS gained 1.00%, reflecting a mild positive market reaction.
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Satellite IoT connectivity expands coverage footprint across Europe
"Satellite connectivity serves as a powerful complement to our terrestrial LoRaWAN network, enabling the connection of IoT devices abroad and also in economically challenging rural areas," said Fredy Portmann, Head of Connected Business Solutions, Swisscom. "Through the seamless integration of EchoStar connectivity into our Swisscom Connectivity Management Platform, we empower our customers to roll out devices and experience a truly borderless IoT connectivity. This dynamic synergy expands the reach of our network, unlocking unprecedented opportunities for businesses in a seamlessly connected world."
Prior to working with EchoStar Mobile, Swisscom relied on terrestrial connectivity to provide IoT managed solutions for smart metering, environmental monitoring, tracking, agriculture, and smart building use cases. Now, Swisscom will be able to offer customers seamless integration of terrestrial and satellite networks and carrier-grade services through Actility's ThingPark Exchange roaming hub.
"EchoStar Mobile has the unique combination of technology expertise and satellite capacity to help Swisscom expand its LoRaWAN IoT footprint across
EchoStar Mobile's innovative pan-European LoRa®-enabled IoT network combines the low-power, long-range benefits of LoRa® with the wide-ranging, robust coverage of EchoStar Mobile's satellite services to provide a direct-to-satellite network solution that is transforming the potential of IoT and the advantages it offers many industries. EchoStar Mobile will be providing Swisscom with multi-year IoT satellite connectivity services.
"Across the industry, LPWAN network operators trust our ThingPark Exchange roaming hub to help them easily interconnect with the other public, private, and community networks," said Alper Yegin, CTO, Actility. "As a longstanding technology partner to Swisscom, we're honored that they are enlisting our platform, alongside satellite capacity from EchoStar Mobile, to offer reliable, seamless pan-European roaming services."
For more information on EchoStar Mobile's capabilities, visit https://echostarmobile.com/.
About Actility
Actility is the world leader in low-power wide-area networks (LPWAN) industrial-grade connectivity solutions for the Internet of Things. Actility provides its ThingPark™ platform and network technology to deploy, operate and maintain public and private wireless IoT networks within a unified, scalable and versatile network infrastructure. The vast majority of nationwide LoRaWAN® network service providers (over 50) and hundreds of enterprises trust ThingPark™ all over the world. Through its subsidiary Abeeway, Actility also provides patented ultra-low power tracking solutions. ThingPark Market offers the largest selection of interoperable IoT gateways, devices and applications to simplify and accelerate deployment of numerous use cases.
About Swisscom
Swisscom is one of the leading ICT companies in
About EchoStar
EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS) is a premier provider of technology, networking services, television entertainment and connectivity, offering consumer, enterprise, operator, and government solutions worldwide under its EchoStar®, Boost Mobile®, Boost Infinite, Sling TV, DISH TV, Hughes®, Hughesnet®, HughesON™, and JUPITER™ brands. In
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