For some context about KPN (company doing this) and LoRa (wireless standard involved): - KPN has pretty much 100% country-wide 2G/3G coverage [1], so this is u

For some context about KPN (company doing this) and LoRa (wireless standard involved): - KPN has pretty much 100% country-wide 2G/3G coverage [1], so this is unlikely to be about long-reach aspect of LoRa; - Frequency licenses are extremely expensive [2] and hard to obtain; - KPN is silent about whether they use licensed or unlicensed spectrum for LoRa, apart from noting that frequency is "low" [3], while they didn't obtain any particularly low-freqency license recently [4] Chances are this is just a land-grab for 433Mhz. [EDIT 868Mhz] [1] http://www.sensorly.com/map/2G-3G/NL/Netherlands/KPN/gsm_20408 http://www.sensorly.com/map/2G-3G/NL/Netherlands/KPN/gsm_204... [2] https://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2012/12/17/4g-auction-raises-usd5bn-for-dutch-coffers/ https://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/... [3] https://corporate.kpn.com/press/press-releases/kpns-new-lora-network-to-boost-the-internet-of-things.htm https://corporate.kpn.com/press/press-releases/kpns-new-lora... [4] https://corporate.kpn.com/press/press-releases/kpn-obtains-highly-valuable-spectrum-dividend-outlook-adjusted.htm https://corporate.kpn.com/press/press-releases/kpn-obtains-h... EDIT: Yep, they are going unlicensed, according to the site weitzj has pointed out: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/wiki/LoRaWAN-Frequencies https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/wiki/LoRaWAN-Frequencies