Intel, Nokia, Ericsson square off against Chinese IoT threat US and European vendors have linked arms in an effort to set low-bandwidth mobile communications standards. Intel, Ericsson and Nokia have thrown their weight behind a standard proposal called Narrow-Band LTE (NB-LTE) to support the comms requirements of Internet of Things devices. If adopted – there's a vote on narrowband …
(...) battery life* of more** than ten*** years****.
*) Where "life" means "the ability to store any charge" as opposed to "ability to store enough energy to power a device for a given length of time".
**) Well no, not really.
***) Or one, or maybe ¼.
****) Assuming the device stays connected to mains power*****.
*****) Assuming the mains power does not lose power for more than ten minutes at any given time.
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