Depending on who you talk to , LTE - U — the term given to using cellular LTE technology to transmit in unlicenced airwaves — is either the futurity of communications , or a awful idea that will wreck wi - fi . The FCC is studiously not take sides in the argument , but is allowing further examination .
https://gizmodo.com/hurricane-lte-u-don-t-let-wi-fi-get-blown-away-1740698386
A flying primer : LTE - U is a proposal to employ the unlicensed 5.8GHz spectrum to transmit cellular signals , an estimation that would dramatically increase the amount of capacity available for cellular data . It ’s being plunk for by a consortium include Samsung , Qualcomm , and Verizon , all of whom exact LTE - U will be a full of life part of preventing web gridlock in the futurity .
On the other handwriting , the unlicensed 5.8Ghz spectrum that LTE - U would use is already in use by existing technologies , most notably wi - fi . The LTE - U summer camp is ( obviously ) claiming that LTE - U and wi - fi can live jubilantly side - by - side . On the other paw , opponentssuch as Googlehave written to the FCC , saying that LTE - U “ coexists poorly ” with wi - fi , and has the potential to be a huge trouble if wide deployed .
Both sides have deployed all-encompassing technical arguments ( and research ) to back their cases , but the FCC has yet to make any kind of decision , but that does n’t mean the Commission is hire it easy . In a web log post on Friday , it announced permission for Qualcomm to perform pocket-size - scale mental testing of LTE - U at two Verizon facilities in the States . Sometime next calendar month , it ’s also hoping for the Wi - Fi Alliance to publish a plan for more generalized and substantial - worldly concern testing .
There ’s a very difficult Libra the Balance for the FCC to expunge here . Telecoms technology better at a rapid rate — just think about how quickly the totality of the US has moved from 2 thousand to 4 thousand engineering — and to a fault burdensome regulation can have a pink - on effect that limits advance for decades .
But on the other paw , wi - fi is a measure that one thousand thousand of the great unwashed rely on for Netflix every sidereal day , and anything that could kill it involve to be test at duration . Add to that the political science of elephantine bay window in turn , and I do n’t envy the line of anyone at the FCC flop now .
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