its down to duty cycle. That figure is the average consumption. I can make most chipsets consume 20uA, its trivial, just don't take them out of hibernation. LT

its down to duty cycle. That figure is the average consumption. I can make most chipsets consume 20uA, its trivial, just don't take them out of hibernation. LTE-M is a high(well couple of kilobytes per second) bandwidth, full duplex, high duty cycle transport layer. Not only that, its relatively long distance (well kinda) Bluetooth is short range < 30m, and at high bandwidth shorter range. yes it can be full duplex, but not at low power (I've not validated that claim though) The BLE beacons don't emit a location every 4 seconds, they also don't have a GPS on all the time eating 35mah. Lora has a maximum duty cycle of something like 5% (ie it has to be not transmitting 95% of the time) not only that, its not designed for realtime two way communications, It's niche is a sensor reporting the state of a sensor every n minutes.