Cellular IoT modem ecosystem — Nordic, Quectel, u-blox, Sequans

The Cellular IoT Module Ecosystem

Six major vendors dominate cellular IoT modules: Quectel (China — volume leader, broadest portfolio including BG, BC, EC, RG, RM series); u-blox (Switzerland — premium-priced, strong industrial focus, SARA-R5 series for LTE-M/NB-IoT); Sequans (France — chipset and module vendor, Cassiopeia for Cat-M1, Monarch for Cat-M1/NB-IoT, Calliope for RedCap); Nordic Semiconductor (Norway — nRF91 integrating cellular + Bluetooth + application processor on single chip); Telit (Italy/US — broad IoT portfolio including ME910 series for LTE-M/NB-IoT, traditional industrial markets); Murata (Japan — packaged…