There are winners and losers among individual technologies, as well as enterprises and industry sectors, during the ongoing global Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, and that is the case for IoT protocols. The 5G community may be delighted that Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) is emphatically among the winners since that protocol is one of their own, standardized by 3GPP and operating over cellular spectrum, possibly reducing the number they will have to support or interoperate with. A recent surge in NB-IoT was noted by Rich Cockle, global head of IoT and big data at the GSMA, in a recent blog, radiating out from China almost like the virus itself. Cockle noted that NB-IoT passed 100m connections in January worldwide and although deployments of IoT…