I think I read somewhere that it will soon be more cost effective to build in cellular chips into "smart" devices like this to circumvent people who don't connect them to the internet.
This is the main use case of 5g iirc. Enabling millions more devices to connect to the network. What an absolute nightmare we are about to enter. "Just don't connect it to the network" is no longer a valid answer.
I will start building 5G jammers. The FCC can eat a bag of dicks.
Apparently even 5G-NR has an equivalent of the wifi "unauthenticated deauth" intended for emergency quench of uncooperative devices.
The cellphone location data abuses revealed over the last three years have led to a remarkable increase in the number of GPS jammers out there. Gaussian-noise blurred, the good ones that can't be notch-filtered.
I think the real answer is that the EU will come up with some "Right to disconnect" which mandates that all devices request user consent to connect and retain as much functionality as physically possible while in offline mode.
The technical battle is basically lost on IoT once they can embed modems.
