Much like the arrival of 4G, the 5G standards have targeted bleeding-edge high-throughput use cases, paying little attention to the potential enormity of the low-power and low-data IoT applications. eRedCap might eventually serve that need, but in the meantime, the 3GPP ecosystem has been blindsided by Wirepas – a Finnish firm that has leveraged the DECT spectrum to introduce 5G NR+, aiming to solve so many of those IoT headaches. Wirepas has used the DECT cordless phone standard to create DECT NR+, and submit it via ETSI and the ITU-R, as part of the IMT-2020 suite that includes all those 3GPP cellular standards. This has, in some ways, blindsided the 3GPP, explained Wirepas CEO Teppo Hemiä, but it has also…