The MulteFire Alliance has shifted its attention from indoor small cells and consumer applications to the IoT. The Alliance is the guardian of the Qualcomm-developed technology to allow LTE to run in unlicensed spectrum without an anchor network in licensed bands (by contrast with LTE-LAA). This has been seen as a potential weapon for cablecos and other non-spectrum owners to use LTE for home, consumer and enterprise purposes, particularly using small cells, since its initial target band has been a relatively short-range one – in the USA, the 3.5 GHz CBRS shared spectrum. Now the Alliance has added support for IoT-focused aspects of LTE to its Release 1.1 specifications, it is broadening its spectrum reach too, eyeing unlicensed bands such…