New 3GPP Standard for IoT [Mobile Radio]
A major milestone was achieved in the Third Generation Partnership Project's (3GPP's) Radio Access Network Plenary Meeting 69 with the decision to standardize the narrowband (NB) Internet of Things (IoT) a new NB radio technology to address the requirements of the IoT. The new technology will provide improved indoor coverage, support of a massive number of low throughput devices, low delay sensitivity, ultralow device cost, low device power consumption, and optimized network architecture. The technology can be deployed in band, utilizing resource blocks within a normal long term evolution (LTE) carrier, or in the unused resource blocks within an LTE carrier's guard band, or stand alone for deployments in dedicated spectrum. The NB IoT is also particularly suitable for the refarming of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) channels.
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