LPWAN for IoT: Interview with Ludovic Le Moan, CEO of Sigfox

IoT Business News : Sigfox has been one of the first players to launch a dedicated technology and connectivity service for low-power, low data rate IoT applications. Where is Sigfox today in terms of commercial deployments (live applications), network footprint and connections?

Ludovic Le Moan (Sigfox) : We now cover 980M people in 46 countries. Our network is the only one able to propose the same value proposition for customers all around the world. It is very important to understand that wherever you are in the world you can benefit from the same SLA, same API, same everything. Our customers can sign a global contract with one price, without roaming or complex conditions.

When we created the first low power, long range and most of all global IoT network, the telecom world didn’t believe it would work. But after our 100M€ financing round, they have started to struggle to find out something to challenge us. They ended up with technologies like LoRa which is definitely not a solution for a global network. Now they are aware of it and they try to move forward with NB-IoT which is a promising technology, but once again, not able to compete with us. I believe they will never be able to reach our value proposition.