Mystic Meg And The 5G IoT Spectrum (IET Berkshire).
Focusing on the theme of field based technologies; I took opportunity to attend an event hosted by the IET Berkshire network. Dr.Abhaya Sumanasena Managing consultant at Real Wireless and Martin Wren-Hilton Director of Mobile Innovation at TalkTalk discussed how NB IoT was emerging as the chosen technology by cellular operators to provide services within the Unlicensed spectrum. Mystic Meg was pictured - Perhaps demonstrating that the transition to 5G can have many winners ! Particularly, NB IoT was discussed against Lora and SigFox networks. Where, whilst Lora and SigFox may have more use cases, NB IoT is likely to become the preferred choice for carrier grade networks to play within the Low Power Wan (LPWA) arena. Uplink and downlink speeds were discussed for field based devices, and whilst…