Back in March this year, NTT Docomo announced that they are switching off their NB-IoT network due to not enough demand but will continue to support LTE-M and Cat 1 . Good spot. An odd reason to give "in order to concentrate management resources". You wouldn't think it would take much resource. — Tom Rebbeck (@tomrebbeck) March 30, 2020 This news have started a lot of discussions, as you would expect, about the future of NB-IoT. From the standards point of view, IoT is going ahead full steam with both LTE-M and NB-IoT having been enhanced for 5G in Release-16 to support massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC). This slide from Qualcomm illustrates it well A recent article from Mobile World Live had a heading, " China Mobile migrates IoT connections off 2G ". While reading the article, you would get a feeling that China Mobile will stop supporting the 2G IoT (more like M2M ) devices. But again this might not be that straightforward as I explain i...
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