Low-power LTE specialist Sequans has announced a joint accelerator project with Verizon, aimed at speeding up the commercial deployment of the upcoming LTE Cat M devices – expected to be formally standardized in Release 13 of the 3GPP’s standard in March. Release 13 will also see a new set of LTE terminology introduced. Cat 1 devices will still be referred to as Cat 1, but the Cat-M devices will now be split into two groups. Cat M1 will encompass what was previously called Cat M, while Cat M2 will encompass the upcoming NB-IoT standard that is on track to be included in Release 13 – although likely not in its finished form. Sequans CEO Georges Karam told RIoT that Cat…