Cellular IoT Contentions - 5G RedCap vs Cat-NB and Cat-M

Pelion | Sony | Telit Cinterion | u-blox
With the 4G-based low-power IoT-based protocols still slowly gaining ground, the looming arrival of the 5G-native RedCap mode threatens to derail roadmaps, adding another layer of customer confusion, with regard to expected deployment support. As we are around 5 years into the 5G cycle, the threat of sunsetting 4G is becoming a point of contention - and those with 2G and 3G devices are already feeling the pain of operators turning off support for those devices - and this is to say nothing of the unlicensed LPWAN world.