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Report Title: Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN ® deployment synergies Issue Date: September 2019 Version: 1.0. final version 16 LoRa Alliance & Wireless Broadband Alliance Confidential & Proprietary Copyright © 2019 Consumer Market The ease of use, decreasing cost and increasingnumber of end devices with LoRaWAN ® and Wi-Fi support will unleash the penetration of both technologies into the mass market for smart homes and beyond. It is also more than likely that business models will follow the Wi-Fi monetization model, as Wi- Fi is already massively rolled-out in the smart home, and not a per end-device subscription model. 7 Licensed / Unlicensed band strategy MNOs who have barely deployed LTE and have yet to derive the financial benefits of this evolution will shortly have to face quite a few challenges when moving to 5G. The overall strategy for 5G is around latency and throughput, however: • Existing services (voice and data on 2G, 3G, 4G) have still to be operated for years. • Licensed band is not free of charge and use of spectrum should be optimized. • IoT Total Cost of Usage on a cellular backbone infrastructure is a challenge. • 3GPP starts pushing for cellular IoT in unlicensed band. • Majority of current LPWA Networks are using unlicensed band for nimble low-cost deployments. Therefore, several MNOs and MSOs tend to use unlicensed technologies to optimize cost and performance. IoT might not justify roll-out cost of Cellular technologies in urban / rural areas however unlicensed has cost justification and shorter ROI time periods. Market adoption of mobile traffic off-loaded to Wi-Fi has already been proven and IoT is following the same path. Site acquisition in urban areas has become a challenge where Wi-Fi Networks are already positioned on the strategic last mile. MNOs have to decide the best cost-efficient roll-out strategy to meet customer demand, develop promising massive IoT business, and prepare 5G challenges on Enhanced mobile broadband and critical IoT. 8 Addressable use cases Within this section you will see the vast amount of market segments and use cases that Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN ® can support when utilized as complementary services.