As part of the lead customer-sampling program, Nordic has achieved its first approval for operation in live network of a leading cellular operator. Certification testing with infrastructure vendors and operators is also progressing well and according to plan. Nordic remains on track for general sampling of a fully-certified solution by mid-2018.

"This is a significant and important milestone for us," says Svein-Egil Nielsen, CTO with Nordic Semiconductor. "We are very happy to be able to share our nRF91 Series low power cellular IoT solution with lead customers to enable them to start working on their own market-leading cellular IoT applications. "For everyone involved in the development of this groundbreaking technology at Nordic Semiconductor this is a proud moment. We are all very excited about the solution we bring to the market, and we believe that our customer will share this excitement with us.