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With no human intervention to fall back upon, the mechanisms that manage recovery from IoT Service failure need to be built into IoT Devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The objective of this document is to specify requirements for efficient use of mobile network connectivity by IoT devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the exception of section 9, the requirements and solutions captured in this document for efficient use of 3GPP mobile networks are for use by the current generation of IoT Devices which do not necessarily support comparable 3GPP network efficiency features or are connecting to networks that do not support the necessary 3GPP network efficiency features. 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