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MediaTek pings Italy with '5G' Internet-of-Things data beam from geostationary satellite 35,000 kilometres up

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WTF?

Usefulness

I doubt that any IoT device has the capability to transmit data to a geostationary satellite. Which means that this will be used for push notifications like:

Your < bill hasn't been paid / license has expired / device is no longer supported / provider has been sold > and we're cutting off your service.

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