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Yes that's fine but the problems remain. The carriers will utterly not present a viable solution to IoT. Neither will industry. There will be 'application spe

Yes that's fine but the problems remain. The carriers will utterly not present a viable solution to IoT. Neither will industry. There will be 'application specific' things that use current networks to achieve IoT, but as far as the carriers are concerned, it'll be like 'low bandwidth mobile phones' or something along those lines. I have no faith in carriers ability to innovate, and industry is not good at presenting 'grand magical architectures'. Something like this could happen: auto companies get together with carriers, and ask for some kind of special device/rate/services. They get special gear made for cars. And then other industries start to use that architecture. Reason being, only Ford/GM etc. are big enough to have real impetus with carriers, and Ford/GM will have specific requirements + the 'long term horizon' enough to guarantee revenue stream. Then other industries hop on board and we have IoT that's used for a lot of stuff, but that was originally designed for cars. Something like that. The carriers are their own worst enemy. Remember when they charged 10 cents per 'WAP' page with a little bit of text and a few links?

njepa 7y ago
Mostly just because there isn't much urgency to improve in the west. There is plenty of IoT in China. I wouldn't say 5G will be amazing in this regard though.
mdorazio 7y ago
I don't disagree with you. The carriers in my experience only care about making as much money as they can off data and even their "IoT" package offerings tend to be a joke in terms of actual cost if you want to do more than SMS between devices once in a while. On the vehicle side, I've sat in negotiations between the big carriers and big automotive manufacturers several times now and I can assure you the autos are not able to exert nearly as much pressure as you would think. Data prices have actually been one of the big causes of crappy head unit experience and lack of OTA updates for the mass market.

njepa 7y ago

Mostly just because there isn't much urgency to improve in the west. There is plenty of IoT in China. I wouldn't say 5G will be amazing in this regard though.

mdorazio 7y ago

I don't disagree with you. The carriers in my experience only care about making as much money as they can off data and even their "IoT" package offerings tend to be a joke in terms of actual cost if you want to do more than SMS between devices once in a while. On the vehicle side, I've sat in negotiations between the big carriers and big automotive manufacturers several times now and I can assure you the autos are not able to exert nearly as much pressure as you would think. Data prices have actually been one of the big causes of crappy head unit experience and lack of OTA updates for the mass market.