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by viraptor 2621 days ago
We've got existing low power, low bandwidth, long range systems. What do you think 5G can improve here?
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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.