Narrowband IoT

Yeah.

If you look at all the stuff coming out the standards, and there's, there was all this, like, NB-IoT, LTE-M- Yeah ... and then RedCap in 5G, there's not really very much it's here at all.

No.

And you look at the, the plenary that went on in Madrid, it, it just seemed to be, it was all about MRSS and- Yeah ... what the other options are.

No, and it's, you know- I'm sure there was something, but- From, from a cellular point of view, it's broadly been a failure.

So- Yeah ...

if you look at NB-IoT, which, which became the, the 5G IoT solution, more operators are getting out of it than into it these days.

Yeah.

And I might even write something on this soon, but that's almost the thing that's been left behind in 6G.

This talk of, you know, 5G was, as part of 5G, we had things like NB-IoT.

I mean, it was actually a 4G standard, but then it got moved into 5G and updated.

And you've heard about things like REDCAT, which is slightly, there's all these various...

And it just has a very, very low bursty sort of like little bits of bandwidth every now and again, transmitting a tiny bit of information.

And the key to it is it's got to be... super cheap and scalable.

Super cheap, and it's where companies like Sigfox and LoRa, the standard LoRa used to play, these non-cellular options, and why we have NB-IoT and things like LTE-M, they came along sort of in response to that.

That's been totally, I think, very much overlooked with the 6G discussion.