LTE Cat-M1 status?

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PottsyNZ

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#243116 27-Nov-2018 16:37

Apologies if this is under wrong board, it kind of covers about 3 different ones but this seems like the most appropriate for the question.

Anyone in the loop to how their LTE Cat-M1 rollout is going? I'm currently got a little project going that centres around a pet tracking device. By nature it's a bit too talky for Sigfox's silly 6 messages an hour restriction (thanks Europe...). Hence I've been looking into Cat-M1 dev boards but I can't actually tell if I could get them on network at the moment or not, are Spark running a dev/early access program at all? I My two ares of interest are Palmerston North and Hamilton at the moment.

hio77

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#2135379 27-Nov-2018 16:42

There is a spark guy floating around here who's in this area, I'll see if i cant get this to his attention. M1 rollout is somewhat limited at this stage While a few things are worked through.

i too am keen to play, both M1 and Lorawan aren't out as far as i am (trees like to eat signal)

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PottsyNZ

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#2135390 27-Nov-2018 17:01

hio77:

There is a spark guy floating around here who's in this area, I'll see if i cant get this to his attention. M1 rollout is somewhat limited at this stage While a few things are worked through.

i too am keen to play, both M1 and Lorawan aren't out as far as i am (trees like to eat signal)

Thanks, alternatively I wonder if Sigfox will re-consider their offerings outside of Europe 6x 8/12 byte messages per hour is crazy for anything but the most basic of use cases.

Have you looked into DASH7 at all? Super interesting (really good positioning, OTA updates) but development and support for it seems to have stalled.