Qualcomm has a white paper, actually from last year, about the benefits of LTE Cat 1bis, which makes it hard to see much of a future in NB-IoT and LTE-M for low-powered IoT applications. Indeed, the comparison exercise suggests Qualcomm wants IoT providers to take advantage of the straighter economies-of-scale afforded by purer LTE-based technologies, […]

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