{"id":10309,"date":"2014-02-27T15:54:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T15:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/altair_touts_single_mode_lte_success_will_focus_on_iot.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:34:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:34:39","slug":"altair-touts-single-mode-lte-success-will-focus-on-iot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/altair-touts-single-mode-lte-success-will-focus-on-iot.html","title":{"rendered":"Altair Touts Single Mode LTE Success, Will Focus on IoT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Single mode LTE is has gone from evangelism mode to commercial shipments <a href=\"http:\/\/altair-semi.com\/news\/why-verizons-ellipsis-could-be-the-first-in-a-new-wave-of-cheap-4g-tablets\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to<\/a> Altair Semiconductor as they showed me the new Verizon seven-inch Android Ellipsis Tablet which retails for $249 with no contract and only $10\/month as part of your shared plan. This is the first LTE-only product according to Brendan Schaffer who tells me that by using a single-mode device you can save up to $100.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/Photo Feb 27, 2014, 3:28 PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/Photo Feb 27, 2014, 3:28 PM.jpg\" id=\"blogsy-1393513107763.5457\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"669\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Another product, the HP 11.6 Inch Chromebook is also an LTE-only device and it costs $249 with no contract or activation or $199 with activation and no contract or $149 with a 2-year contract. You can pick this device up at Best Buy according to Schaffer who says the product really maximizes cloud-based computing, extending it beyond WiFi.<\/p>\n<p>This is big news for the company &#8211; you may recall how last year I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/consumer-electronics\/altair-semiconductors-4g-chip-bet-pays-off.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> about how they were evangelizing the single-mode LTE concept and was discussing network certifications.<\/p>\n<p> Having passed this major milestone of enabling multiple devices in the US, the IoT is now a ripe area for the company where they think they will be able to lower costs over mulitimode solutions.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned that in many of my conversations with carriers they say they love the M2M space because it leverages their low-bandwidth legacy networks. He pointed out that from a network-longevity standpoint, 4G makes sense &#8211; citing AT&#038;T shutting down their 2G network in 2017. Another area where 4G is logical of course is high-bandwidth M2M applications such as remote video monitoring\/surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Expect to hear more from the company about disruptive price points in the IoT space. That is where Altair Semiconductor sees lots of opportunity.<span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right; font-size: small; clear: both;\" id=\"blogsy_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\/images\/blogsy_footer_icon.png\" alt=\"Posted with Blogsy\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px;\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/>Posted with Blogsy<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Single mode LTE is has gone from evangelism mode to commercial shipments according to Altair Semiconductor as they showed me the new Verizon seven-inch Android Ellipsis Tablet which retails for $249 with no contract and only $10\/month as part of your shared plan. This is the first LTE-only product according to Brendan Schaffer who tells<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,193,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18848,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309\/revisions\/18848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}