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If you’ve been following the M2M space this year, you may have noticed that SIGFOX is making a number of sweeping moves to position itself as a global M2M Telecom Operator. After raising their \u20ac15M Series B<\/a>, Sigfox added former Areva CEO Anne Lauvergeon as their President<\/a>, signaling to many that this company has IPO plans and an industrial future.<\/p>\n In addition to existing networks that cover most of France & The Netherlands, parts of Spain & Russia, as well as, I’m told, the United Kingdom, SIGFOX recently announced plans to lay out a network in the Silicon Valley, a region known not only for having many of the world’s top tech companies, but also for being pioneers in terms of technology use.<\/p>\n The move is a bold one for SIGFOX. If successful, it will provide for the groundwork for building out across the US with an existing client base that has a habit of testing things out in California. However, murmurs of weaknesses in SIGFOX’s network when it comes to two-way communication may be put in the spotlight if SV users detect weakness.<\/p>\n Still, SIGFOX represents a credible threat to all existing ISPs and TelCo players – they have shown that it is possible to circumvent 3G, Wifi, Bluetooth options – the latter of which is the closest competitor (as a standard, not as a company); however, SIGFOX’s long-range, low energy network presents opportunities beyond what exist today. A real Connected World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’ve been following the M2M space this year, you may have noticed that SIGFOX is making a number of sweeping moves to position itself as a global M2M Telecom Operator. After raising their \u20ac15M Series B, Sigfox added former Areva CEO Anne Lauvergeon as their President, signaling to many that this company has IPO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":25220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}