LTE is becoming a numbers game – the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was full of handsets supporting Cat-6 and Cat-7 LTE, and operators like EE and SK Telecom are trialling networks with Cat-9 speeds (450Mbps) and looking ahead to Cat-10. But the low numbers are important too, and CES also saw the launch of the world’s first commercial Cat-1 LTE chipset. This came from Sequans, one of the LTE-only modem suppliers which sees new opportunities in the internet of things (IoT). Cat-1 is actually part of Release 9, and supports up to 10Mbps downlink speeds – insignificant for mobile broadband of course, but more than adequate for many internet of things applications, especially as it runs at very low power.…