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Cellular IoT: An Opportunity for Billions of New Deployments

May 14, 2019

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The demand for LTE-based Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity continues to gain momentum alongside the increasing need for connected equipment. According to Ericsson (2018) there will be more than 3.5 billion cellular IoT devices in market by 2023, making cellular technology a major communication enabler of IoT.

There are a number of competing technologies on the market to connect IoT devices. Many of the wide-area technologies, such as Sigfox, Weightless, and LoRa, are not LTE based. That is an important distinction because LTE-based IoT can be overlaid on existing LTE networks as a software upgrade.

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