[lp-wan] LoRa Orange outdoors coverage characteristics in France?

[Alexandre Petrescu <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

Excuse me if my question is not in scope.

What are the characteristics of the LoRa coverage of the Orange operator 
in France?

Where are situated the LoRa Orange base stations for outdoors coverage?

What are the frequencies used?

I am asking being triggered by a friend who acquired an Invoxia GPS 
tracker to be used in cars; it claims to use no SIM card and to rely on 
LoRA and Sigfox to send its position to a server in the Internet.

I have some doubts about how it works, how the coverage err, covers, and 
ultimately how much is the car really protected.   I need to clarify.

I found that the LoRa frequencies are in the range 862-870 MHz, by 
specification. 
https://www.anfr.fr/fileadmin/mediatheque/documents/IoT/Orange_Consultation_ARCEP-ANFR_IoT-Fr%C3%A9quences.pdf

I searched several public descriptions of the 2G..5G frequencies used in 
some important base stations deployments in France (cartoradio.fr), but 
none of them seems to tell the 862-870MHz of LoRa.  They do tell other 
frequencies used for 2G (e.g. 889.9-898.6 MHz) and LTE 700 (e.g. 763-773 
MHz or 708-718 MHz)

I found a Lora Orange coverage map in France.  But it does not say where 
the LoRa base stations are situated; it does not center the various 
coverage areas into some central points.  It looks more like a terrain 
analysis, rather than an EM coverage.
https://www.orange-business.com/fr/reseau-iot

Alex