At this week’s MWC in Shanghai, Fibocom announced the latest member of its LTE Cat-1bis module portfolio featuring reliability, compact size and cost-effectiveness.

The MC610-GL is positioned to foster the economics of IoT scale in vertical markets across asset tracking, e-mobility, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and more.

The global cellular IoT module market showed a 7% year-over-year growth in Q1 2024, according to IoT Analytics. Despite ongoing inventory and demand issues in several other regions globally, technologies such as 5G and LTE Cat-1bis have seen a combined market growth of 67% year-over-year.

“The statistics have verified Cat-1bis’ driving forces in bringing affordable and reliable wireless connectivity service to a diversified IoT landscape, even though 5G remains strong performance in the data-intensive scenarios, and Cat-1bis takes the lead in the mainstream low and medium speed market thanks to the worldwide 4G infrastructure,” said Kevin Guan, director at Fibocom. “Without a doubt, we are optimistic in expanding the utilisation of Cat-1bis technology in segment areas and providing the value-added reference design service to industry customers. Looking forward, the MC610-GL is expected to address its top performance in the global market and accelerate the large-scale IoT deployment worldwide.”

Developed from the Unisoc 8910DM platform, the MC610-GL (www.fibocom.com/en/products/LTECat1-MC610-GL.html) supports major carrier frequency bands worldwide and complies with network standards, thus ensuring uninterrupted wireless connection anywhere, anytime, especially catering to asset tracking.

It adopts a compact LCC+LGA form factor design measuring 24.2 by 26.2 by 2.1mm with dual-mode (4G+2G) supported, providing convenience for those wanting to switch from LTE Cat M to Cat-1bis with low investment. Equipped with standard interfaces, the module empowers a wide range of low-to-medium speed IoT industries with up to 10Mbit/s downlink data transmission rate while conserving cost.

A reference design service and support are available, reducing the lead time to market. In addition, regional versions for Emea (MC610-EU) and Latin America (MC610-LA) are flexibly adjustable in request to users’ cost concerns. 

Commercial samples will be available in July.

Fibocom (www.fibocom.com) is a provider of wireless communication modules and the first wireless communication module provider listed on China A-shares stock market.