BEREC Summary Report of the Workshop on Internet Of Things: Perspectives and Competition

On 26 October 2023, BEREC organized an online workshop on Internet of Things: perspectives and competition  to assess the state of the art for the delivery of IoT services, their evolution in recent years in view of the technology and regulatory developments and discuss if new competition or provisioning bottlenecks have arisen or if the issues identified in 2016 have been solved. About 150 participants, representing BEREC members and different types of stakeholders, took part in the event.

BEREC Chair 2023, Prof. Kostas Masselos initiated the workshop with a keynote speech provided. The following exchanges were divided in two roundtables: one on IoT Solutions, the other on IoT providers. Concluding remarks were provided by Mr. Peter Stuckmann, Head of Unit and Deputy Director at DG CONNECT.

The first panel dedicated to IoT solutions included the participation of Mr. Serafino Abate, Regulatory Affairs Expert at Volvo, Dr. Carl Jeding, Director Government & Policy Advocacy at Ericsson and Mr. Musa Unmehopa, Head of Wireless Standards & Regulations at Signify and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Connectivity Standards Alliance.

In the second panel focused on IoT providers, Mr. Jacques Bonifay represented Transatel, Mr Gonzalo Garcia Arribas, Telefónica, and Mr. Fabien Migneret participated on behalf of the LoRa Alliance.

Closing remarks were provided by Mr. Peter Stuckmann, Head of Unit and Deputy Director at DG CONNECT.