New LTE standard for Internet of Things gets push from 3GPP

Fierce Wireless – September 22, 2015 – The 3GPP took a big step forward last week in defining a new LTE standard designed for the low-power and low-bandwidth nature of the Internet of Things.

At a meeting in Phoenix the 3GPP’s radio access network working group agreed to standardize Narrowband-IoT, or NB-IoT. “The new technology will provide improved indoor coverage, support of massive number of low throughput devices, low delay sensitivity, ultra-low device cost, low device power consumption and optimized network architecture,” 3GPP said in a blog post.  Read More>>