Enthusiasm for Reduced Capability (RedCap) 5G as a fourth primary use case has grown markedly during 2023, coming from operators and major mobile infrastructure vendors across Europe, North America, the Middle East and APAC. Interest has picked up particularly strongly in China, where the three major telcos, China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom, have implemented end-to-end commercial RedCap services in over 10 cities in collaboration with Huawei as equipment supplier. This capability is already serving applications in manufacturing, electric power, city management and automotive V2X, with the next step being to establish a series of commercial RedCap benchmarks, according to Huawei. This follows the introduction of RedCap with the current 3GPP Release 17, first introduced into commercial services in…