We are from India, How can we connect to the LTE beacon with carriers,
How the subscriptions with LTE beacon and carriers in India
Your LTE Beacon comes with a SIM card with almost world-wide coverage, including India. However, LTE Beacon by default only works with LTE-M (a low-power version of LTE for IoT devices) networks, and it seems like no operators in India support it at this time:
https://www.gsma.com/iot/deployment-map/
The current version of the LTE Beacon supports GPRS/EDGE as an alternative—shoot us an email to contact@estimote.com, and we can help you enable it. Note that the GPRS support will be disappearing in the future, so this is more of a temporary workaround while the LTE-M still rolls out around the world. It’s also not low-power, so it’ll drain the battery faster.
Subscription details are still in the works, but for now everyone who bought an LTE Beacon dev kit gets a 3-month free trial. If you’re planning longer-term and have a specific project in mind, our team over at contact@estimote.com can help you estimate the costs.
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