LoRa has a much lower cost per device, doesn’t come with any subscription charges per device and if coverage is poor, it is relative inexpensive to provision your own coverage.
I used GSM since 20+ years back. It has its time and place, as does WiFi, 2.4GHz modules, 433MHz modules, microwave, dialup (still), actual runs of cables and IP over Avian.
I’m not sure how saying they have considerable differences is a cheap cop out, for £15 (volumes around the 50 mark) I can build a device with batteries and have a good expectation it will just run for at least two, likely three, maybe four years without any other additional costs. I can’t do that with any other technology I know. So all I’m saying is, sometimes the extra effort is worth it.
If you disagree, I’d love to hear your views, particularly with your experience in the spread out environment which you are in, which parts of the UK due to patchy coverage mirrors at a microscopic scale. We still have some startling dead patches for any radio coverage (like the middle of the second most visited National Park in the world). I’d anticipate you can’t just get a new mobile tower setup, so what else would be available to you?
TTN in Australia, just like it is in the UK for me and everyone in every other country is us/you. If it’s in a rut, getting communities together to solve problems will move it forward. If along the way there are issues with provisioning & complexity, maybe we could collaborate to resolve them?
I think a business in the process of launching its product range is going to go for low hanging fruit like well provisioned areas and is inoculating, via marketing, potential customers coming to them asking for a LoRa version of what they offer. This sort of cherry picking suits me, as I pickup the work where larger companies can’t be bothered.