Indeed what happens when that already-tricky situation is compounded dramatically as an additional 40 billion devices get connected to the Internet over the next several years and begin streaming out massive volumes of data about speeds and location and performance degradation and volume of usage and even such vital but narrowly focused applications such as whether or not your morning coffee is ready?
Lower temperatures help prevent the degradation of the media that leads to normal data loss so some in the discussion pointed out that burying the devices in the ground could extend their useful life.
Failing to do so will result in massive degradation in service quality to consumers, whether it is through explicit use of data caps or through network congestion that results from a lack of funding for network expansion.