by Angela Guess

A new press release reports, “5G Americas, the industry trade association and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas, today announced the publication of LTE and 5G Technologies Enabling the Internet of Things, a report focused on the key radio technologies specified by the 3GPP global standards body that aim to create a strong ecosystem for the Internet of Things (IoT), much like the very successful global mobile broadband market built with LTE.”

The release goes on, “The term Internet of Things (or Everything) has been coined to describe the vision of an interconnected network of physical objects that interact with people, other physical objects and systems in an effort to benefit society in unprecedented ways. There are two key categories for IoT use cases that are well-addressed by LTE and future 5G technologies — Massive and Critical IoT. There exist, however, many use cases between the two extremes, which are already operating today on 2G, 3G or 4G mobile wireless connectivity.”

Chris Pearson, President of 5G Americas commented, “An industry transformation is underway, fueled by a myriad of global developments including the continuous expansion of internet connectivity, a high adoption of mobile devices and an exploding array of innovation initiatives… Such a transformation is a natural development in the process to materialize the vision that ‘anything that can benefit from an internet connection will have one’ and IoT can be at the forefront of this transformation.”

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