5G thunders into MWC, but IoT only just getting onto LTE – Rethink
Brace yourselves; MWC is here, and the cacophony of 5G sycophants is going to reach deafening heights. Through the din, you will hunt for IoT-related news, about how the new 5G technologies are going to be put to use, and you will notice that all of the scant attention given to the matter at MWC will concern high bandwidth applications. Unsurprisingly, low-power applications aren’t sexy enough for the booth drapery. This concern was the backdrop for a conversation with Antenova, a specialist in the dark art of antenna design that decided to go all-in on the IoT a few years ago – something CEO Colin Newman says he’d liked to have pulled the trigger on earlier, in hindsight. Working closely…