Our team at Pycom is finally preparing to release a NB-IoT firmware including Huawei eNB compatibility (necessary for T-Mobile NL) around the end of this month.
@afzal_m We’ll only be able to support UDP passthrough initially, not CDP. Is this supported by T-Mobile already? I saw some posts saying it was planned. I’d appreciate if you can share anything around it.
Thanks!
Hi @juan-carbonell,
Pycom as released the first NB-IoT firmware:
https://forum.pycom.io/topic/2902/cellular-radio-firmware-release-sqn3330-for-both-cat-m1-and-nb-iot/14
unfortunately support for Huawei based networks such as T-Mobile isn’t working yet. Also we need UDP passthrough support from the network (coming before Summer as Afzal said) because we only support IP operation.
We’re only limited by what Sequans - the modem chipset manufacturer - can offer us so once they supply a working firmware for Huawei and either Sequans supports CDP or T-Mobile supports UDP Passthrough mode we’ll be able to support this amazing network.
I have to say I feel bad because of all the NB-IoT networks I have tested T-Mobile NL has been the best so far - great service uptime, coverage even during trial phase and of course great support team. I really wish Pycom could support it sooner.
Our team at Pycom is finally preparing to release a NB-IoT firmware including Huawei eNB compatibility (necessary for T-Mobile NL) around the end of this month.
@afzal_m We’ll only be able to support UDP passthrough initially, not CDP. Is this supported by T-Mobile already? I saw some posts saying it was planned. I’d appreciate if you can share anything around it.
Thanks!
Hi @pmb_nl,
We’d love to support T-Mobile NL but we don’t control the firmware on the LTE modem (that’s on Sequans) and that is still not compatible with T-Mobile NL infrastructure (Huawei)
I did test the first NB-IoT modem firmware release on Vodafone NL (Ericsson, Band 20) last week and it worked very well so that’s encouraging. Sequans will offer Huawei compatible firmware next, timeline for release is still Q1.
Obviously when we have it we’ll test it with T-Mobile NL right away. Thanks for the wait I think you’ll like it when we’re finished - should very easy to use (no complicated AT commands in sight)