Sigfox makes global stride with Altice IoT partnership

By Tim Skinner, Mar. 22, 2016 – 

IoT networking platform Sigfox has gained the endorsement of international telecoms conglomerate Altice as, alongside subsidiary SFR, the two have agreed rollouts in France and across the world.

Sigfox has developed significant momentum over the past 18 months in a variety of European countries, and the announcement has seen it add France's second biggest operator in SFR to its ranks. Altice, SFR's parent company, also owns Portugal Telecom and Americas-based cable operator Cablevision, and it has confirmed plans to extend the Sigfox agreement to all territories where the group is present, including Portugal, the US and Israel.

Former Alcatel-Lucent CEO Michel Combes, now COO at Altice and CEO of SFR, said the agreement will see its Sigfox-enabled networks carry billions of connections around the world.

"We are convinced that the IoT market is an opportunity to seize now, with a global vision," he said. "We are talking about billions of connections. We share the same entrepreneurial vision with Sigfox and the will to conquer new markets. The availability of the Sigfox network allows us to bring new Internet of Things solutions to our B2B clients."

Sigfox runs as parallel to operator's cellular networks, and is designed to be ready for extremely low-power IoT products.

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