Google, Microsoft, Comcast Say Verizon’s New Cellular Tech Could Wreck Wi-Fi
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Re: Google, Microsoft, Comcast Say Verizon’s New Cellular Tech Could Wreck Wi-Fi
#2why is spectrum so expensive? only Goliath size corps can afford it.
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#3why is spectrum so expensive? only Goliath size corps can afford it.
Because physics doesn't like startups I guess...
Or to phase that another way: There is a lot of spectrum. But very little spectrum that is suitable for mobile phone usage. When a resource is finite and valuable, it gets expensive.
If you want a "real" solution that would allow startups to play in the ballpit? Pass new national laws which split the cellular companies into two organisations, one that offers consumer services, and another which exists to maintain/install/upgrade the physical cellular network (and who then resells access).
It actually makes little sense to have competing and exclusive cellular infrastructure. The infrastructure should just be like a public resource, like a road, and the cellphone companies should be like shipping companies, utilising a public resource (the road) to sell a service (shipping stuff).
I'd be all for the government using eminent domain to seize every single cellphone tower in the country, and then reselling access to them to every cell phone company equally. But it isn't very capitalist...
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#4why is spectrum so expensive? only Goliath size corps can afford it.
you answered your own question! it's to keep the bar high so only the Goliath can play
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#5Sitting at about 0 worries. The second Verizon (or any other company's) new wireless tech started to mess with WiFi in practice (as in, at the consumer level), and was clearly attributable, they would instantly be hit with a giant tidal wave of bad PR.
Wifi works. People will not be very happy if you single-handedly break all their wifi-enabled things.
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#6Here is the actual study - it is an interesting read:
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=60001078145
In a nutshell; the LTE transmission cycles on and off on a regular cadence without sensing if the channel is clear. This tramples over the 802.11 frames and results in higher utilization of the medium than that which is claimed by Qualcomm
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#7why is spectrum so expensive? only Goliath size corps can afford it.
because there is only one and certain parts of it can be monetized to great affect? you can get licensed spectrum in a point to point fashion for the cost of a modest used car, in some places.
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#8why is spectrum so expensive? only Goliath size corps can afford it.
Most of the usable spectrum is being wasted on stupid junk like navigation, military and police who are using ancient, inefficient technologies. The bandwidth-specific value we're getting from the ISM bands dwarf nearly all other uses.
There would suddenly appear to be huge amounts of available spectrum if the authorities would just yank bands from the most useless legacy allocations and auction them off.
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#10why is spectrum so expensive? only Goliath size corps can afford it.
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