Anything similar going on in Europe? London specifically? I would love to create some pocketable hardware that never needs recharging and sends text and (compact) vector-based graphical market updates to people.
Yes, on the Continent, at least! I'm not sure about the UK.
Both LoRa and Sigfox came out of French companies, and several wireless carriers have announced plans to build networks. Also check out The Things Network guys in Amsterdam who are trying to crowdsource a network, very cool stuff.
Sigfox is being used in the roll out of smart gas/electricity meters in the north of England/Scotland. Unfortunately Telefonica won the south any they will use the GSM network.
