A group of wireless execs aim to build a nationwide network for the Internet of things
Fortune – September 11, 2015 – Several big names in the cellular communications industry are backing a company called Ingenu that this week launched what it hopes will be a nationwide wireless network dedicated to the Internet of things. Richard Lynch, the former CTO of Verizon Communications, is chairman of the Ingenu board. John Horn, the former CEO of Raco Wireless, a machine-to-machine company that worked closely with T-Mobile and was purchased by Kore Wireless, is the CEO. Read More>>
PCWorld – September 11, 2015 – While mobile operators often claim bragging rights to the fastest smartphone connections, another rivalry is heating up around networks that aren’t fast at all: Their claim to fame is that they don’t suck up power. 
IoT Evolution/IoTTime – September 10, 2015 – (Video) On this IoTTime, partnerships lead the news. Samsung, LG and SK Telecom join forces to unite their connected home platforms in Korea. IMS introduces DriveSync, an telematics platform for connected home, car and lifestyle solutions. On-Ramp re-brands and relaunches as Ingenu with the lofty goal of building a national IoT connectivity network called Machine Network. On MyIoT, Ken hails this development as a positive sign for the future of the IoT. He says it’s critical for this kind of network to be ubiquitous and all-encompassing in order to make the IoT an ever-present feature of consumer and industrial lives. 
San Diego Business Journal – September 10, 2015 – Rancho Bernardo-based On-Ramp Wireless announced plans to build a national network for the Internet of Things and said it was relaunching the business under a new name, Ingenu. The business said Sept. 9 that it was launching the Machine Network, which it bills as the industry’s first nationwide network built exclusively for machine-to-machine or Internet of Things connectivity. 
Fierce Wireless – September 10, 2015 – The debate over what is the best low-power wireless communications protocol technology to power millions and eventually billions of Internet of Things devices heated up at Super Mobility this week. LTE chipset Altair Semiconductor argued that LTE Category 1 chipsets can achieve many of the benefits of the more advanced Category 0 chips without the need for device makers to add in new silicon. Meanwhile, even though competitor Sequans Communications was at CTIA’s Super Mobility conference touting Cat 0, the company conceded that network software upgrades could bring the benefits of Cat 0 without the need for new chips. 
Xconomy – September 9, 2015 – San Diego’s On-Ramp Wireless has shed its skin.
Telecompaper- September 9, 2015 – On-Ramp Wireless announced a corporate relaunch under the new name Ingenu and the roll-out of a public M2M network in the US. Ingenu is using On-Ramp’s Random Phase Multiple Access (RPMA) technology already deployed in private networks to create a public network for machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity, which it calls the ‘Machine Network’. 
CNET – September 9, 2015 – When you want to watch streaming videos in a taxi, you need a mobile network that can deliver the data as fast as possible. But a startup called Ingenu is betting that a lot of customers will pay for a slower network that’s cheaper to use.