Opinions differ about the relative market shares of mobile service provider IoT access services built on licensed spectrum, compared to low power wide area networks using unlicensed spectrum.
Separately, there is the role to be played by private networks owned and operated directly by enterprises. Private LTE, for example, is viewed as an important platform for some automative factory applications.
The easy answer at this point is that a number of platforms will have sizable share in the wide area marketplace, while local connection technologies are expected to rely on unlicensed spectrum and short-range access networks.
There are, to be sure, some present cost differences. LPWA using unlicensed spectrum has had a cost advantage in terms of network costs and arguably for sensors as well. Those sorts of cost advantages tend to narrow with volume, though.
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