Will IoT be as Big as the Industrial Revolution?

If you are in the communications business, you should hope the hype is going to be proven correct, and Internet of Things is as transformative as was the Industrial Revolution. 

The reason is that all those connected devices represent the next wave of growth after mobile data saturates. And that is just the "access" part of the story. 

To the extent that "dumb pipe" providers want to "move up the stack" and into value-added parts of the ecosystem, IoT offers many opportunities to do so.