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For utility companies there are several reasons why they should own their own networks and not rely on public cellular networks: reliability and latency, connectivity in rural areas, no over-subscription (hence they work the same way in disaster scenarios). The new worldwide standard, IEEE 802.16s, was released in October 2017. Some more information about the standard and about the MC-IoT networks can be found in this article.
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