The reason IoT comes into play with 5G is desification. A 4G base station can support X number of UE (User Equipment - phones, mifis, CatM IoT modems, etc) based on the LTE protocol. 5G allows X times N number of UE's per base station, which will allows the network to support the planned proliferation of IoT devices OUTSIDE of the home or office. Think every parking meter, street light, etc independently addressable via 5G. In home devices are not the real target.

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 5:49 PM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:

On 12/30/19 2:39 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>
> It'd be nice to see what benefits 5g really has for carriers and
> consumers/users... It looks, to me, like a bunch of the 5g hype is
> really: "uhm, we need to sell these carriers on the G++ ... spin up
> the hype machine about speed!" never mind the cost to deploy, range of
> deployment, changes in handset/radio gear / etc... more $ to the
> vendors!

You know that there is a massive amount of hype going on when they tie
IoT to why it's definitely most certainly needed the mostest. I mean,
your average IoT gadget is going to consume exactly how much bandwidth?
And why on earth would I want to deploy using cellular when my router
can have a zigby port and send it using my home connection?

Mike