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by TheSoftwareGuy 2621 days ago
That's one of the big use cases of 5G though. Having a huge number of low-bandwidth subscribers
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We've got existing low power, low bandwidth, long range systems. What do you think 5G can improve here?
How many devices can these systems handle?
Depends what you want to do, how you want to communicate, do you broadcast / mesh, uni/bi directional, etc. It's a "how long is a piece of string" situation.

From cheap, slow, long range deployments like LoRa (100 devices sending tens of bytes) to satellite broadcast (any number of synchronised devices), and a few things in between.