4G was heavily hyped for IoT as well, and even has specific standards: LTE-M and NB-IoT. IMO the ongoing push to make IoT happen is less about the technology a

4G was heavily hyped for IoT as well, and even has specific standards: LTE-M and NB-IoT. IMO the ongoing push to make IoT happen is less about the technology and more about trying to get the next 10B devices online and paying network access fees, software license fees, etc. As you mention, a lot of the proposed use cases are very low data (maybe a few MB/day on the higher end).