Reduced Capability mode (RedCap) has been promoted increasingly as a fourth use case for 5G, by bringing most of the IoT world into the fold, including low bit rate applications using an LPWAN protocol, as in smart metering and environmental sensing. The emphasis has been on RedCap’s improved performance over the preceding LTE-M as the higher capacity cellular LPWAN variant, while offering a path to convergence within a single overall 5G stack. But RedCap may have a greater immediate impact as a stripped-down version of the eMBB 5G stack, making it a more affordable option for private networks, especially among smaller enterprises. Here RedCap is emerging as a migration vehicle towards full blown private networks, enabling initial IoT applications to…