NB-IoT and LTE-M: Global Market Status

Companies are actively working on IoT use cases and opportunities in various vertical markets ranging from agriculture to energy utilities and from automotive to robotics. We expect the market to grow rapidly over the next five years and for 3GPP technologies to account for much of that growth as they continue to develop.

The size of the 3GPP ecosystem will further drive commercialisation of IoT, with mobile operators, infrastructure suppliers, chipset and module manufacturers, device companies as well as development and testing houses supporting new services.

• 44 operators have deployed / commercially launched NB-IoT networks
• 13 operators have deployed / commercially launched LTE-M networks
• 107 operators are actively investing in NB-IoT technology
• 38 operators are actively investing in LTE-M technology
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