It is reported that MIIT recently announced that China is required to speed up the implementation of NB-IoT in China, and to build 400,000 million base stations by the end of this year, 1.5 million by 2020.
NB-IoT has outstanding advantages in depth coverage, large links, ultra low power consumption and ultra low cost, becoming an important push of the IoT industry process.
Constructing NB-IoT infrastructure and developing the application based on NB-IoT is helpful to the network development in China and can promote the innovation and "Internet+".
MIIT also said that China aims to achieve over 20 million M2M connections based on NB-IoT in 2017 and over 600 million in 2020.
The NB-IoT technical agreement was identified by 3GPP on June 16, 2016, which can be deployed around the world now, giving birth to a series of commercial scenes. China's three major operators have started launching the pre-commercial NB-IoT services.