I will be happy to see LoRA got more attention and used more widely. You can build your own LoRA network across large area with zero monthly fee once it is up and running, and you pay monthly fee to NB-IoT just like your cellphone plan, which one you prefer? Not to mention LoRA is technically better.
First time hearing that, where did you get that?
I guess I would like to know the hardware setup involved in a large area to avoid any fees. Can you give a theoretical infrastructure requirement?
So, it is just an access point and then some clients, basically?
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Second, LoRaWAN uses an ALOHA medium access scheme, which also suffers from poor network spectral efficiency compared to basically every other medium access scheme out there. So these two things combined mean that a LoRaWAN network probably won't be able to handle much traffic.
Almost all of the media I see about LoRa and LoRaWAN talk about the great range, which is really good, but then gloss over the network performance. So in my opinion LoRa is a bit too hyped at the moment. I also think that when LoRa came out, it was the only PHY that bothered to go down to really low bit-rates, and then the range basically comes from the Shannonn-Hartley theorem. People think that LoRa gets its range from some fancy signal processing tricks or whatever, but I think it's just the fact that they bothered to drop the bit-rate very low. That's basically what SigFox is doing as well, but they're using a more typical narrowband PHY and so probably won't suffer from the same network capacity problems.