Although many IoT articles can be found that go in the direction LoRaWAN vs Cellular IoT this article depicts a different picture where these two can be used in a harmony. The end customers don’t care much about the connectivity solution anyway!
LoRa chips use around 5x less energy hence they can be used with cheaper batteries and the chips also cost less. The throughput is lower as well so the target applications are actually different and LoRaWAN and C-IoT can and do work together. Due to this fact Orange is pursuing both LoRaWAN and C-IoT path. The similar transition has been seend with WiFi since it was adopted by operators to be integral part of their solutions.
Part of the article is a very good webinar by Actility that explains these facts in more details.
