European LoRaWAN Push in Latin America

Kerlink’s Gateways, LORIOT’s Platforms and Netmore’s Takeover: Europe’s Expanding Grip on Latin America’s IoT Connectivity

How European companies shaped Latin America’s LoRaWAN landscape—from Everynet’s Brazil Foundations to Netmore’s Network Takeover—pioneering neutral-host networks, supplying carrier-grade infrastructure, scaling platforms, and culminating in Netmore’s assumption of American Tower’s operations in Brazil.

(NEWS) BRUSSELS / SÃO PAULO, 17-Sep-2025 — /EuropaWire/ — Latin America’s accelerating Internet of Things (IoT) adoption has opened the door for European companies to play outsized roles in building LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) infrastructure and services across the region. From early neutral-host networks to carrier-grade gateways and cloud platforms, Europe’s footprint now spans Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Puerto Rico and beyond.

The story begins in Brazil, where Everynet — a Europe-based LoRaWAN operator — teamed up with American Tower to roll out a nationwide IoT network. That neutral-host model helped cities and industries connect low-power sensors at low cost, moving millions of messages daily from hundreds of thousands of devices as coverage expanded through São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and other hubs. Crucially, Everynet later became part of Swedish operator Netmore Group through an acquisition announced in late 2024 and completed in early 2025, creating a single European owner with both the early Brazilian network know‑how and the resources to scale it.

European hardware vendors also underpinned the region’s first wave of national LoRaWAN networks. In Argentina, French firm Kerlink supplied its carrier-grade Wirnet gateways to support the country’s inaugural nationwide LoRaWAN rollout, initially focused on Buenos Aires and Rosario. Local partners aimed to extend coverage countrywide and into neighbouring markets, using LoRaWAN’s long-range, low-power characteristics for smart city, agriculture and asset-tracking deployments.

On the platform side, Switzerland’s LORIOT expanded through partnerships and local infrastructure to improve reliability and latency for Latin American operators. Agreements with regional distributors and integrators were paired with a LoRaWAN server cluster in São Paulo and a professional public server for Latin users — measures designed to accelerate deployments and reduce time to value for municipal and industrial projects.

That groundwork set the stage for the latest strategic development: in September 2025, Netmore Group assumed commercial operations of American Tower’s LoRaWAN network in Brazil, taking responsibility for customers, network management and service delivery under formal SLAs. With Everynet’s Brazilian foundations now inside the company, Netmore is positioned to densify coverage and scale sector deployments across water and gas metering, agriculture, transport and logistics, and smart cities.

The integration of Everynet’s early Brazilian footprint into Netmore — combined with European infrastructure (Kerlink) and platform capacity (LORIOT) — illustrates how European firms have helped make LoRaWAN a practical backbone for Latin America’s sensor economy. For Brazil, the consolidation under Netmore promises carrier‑grade SLAs and a clearer path to nationwide densification, a prerequisite for large‑scale utility and municipal deployments.