China Telecom builds world's largest NB-IoT commercial network

China Telecom announced on May 17, 2017 that it has built world's most extensive new-generation commercial NB-IoT network.

Based on the cellular mobile network, NB-IoT is a major technological means to achieve mass connection and Internet of Everything with low cost, low power consumption, large connection and wide coverage, accounting for over 60 percent of the total demands of Internet of Things.

With standards of NB-IoT freezing last year, China Telecom has carried out NB-IoT all-network commercial deployments in the 800MHz band, and now it has the ability to provide the next-generation Internet of Things.

It is reported that the company's next-generation IoT is deployed based on 4G full coverage network, able to offer IoT services anywhere there's mobile network; its 310,000 base stations have upgraded synchronously; the low frequency band of 800MHz makes the signal penetration stronger, the coverage wider, and the network more stable.