Wireless Devices Running Out Of Wifi Spectrum Within Two Years
The problem with watching videos and tv using the internet on the vast range of mobile devices now available, is lack of wireless space. The massive explosion in popularity of mini pc’s, smartphones and other wireless devices, is clogging up the airwaves that we use to make phone calls, browse the web and watch tv and video on.
If the wireless spectrum is not expanded, there will be a slower service and many dropped connections before long. Alreaddy there are reports of many unhappy customers due to the shortage of the wireless frequencies that deliver data and allow smartphones to perform all the tasks that modern day owners want and expect.
Is Wifi Running Out?
Unfortunately wireless devices are a victim of their own success. More and moreconsumers are bpurchasing the latest gadgets and smartphones, then using them for everything else other than phone calling. The new devices are great at streaming YouTube videos and watching tv streams.
The figures are alarming, at the end of 2008, 34 million mobile subscribers in the United States accessed the Internet using their cell phone, according to Forrester Research, a technology market research firm. That number is projected to grow to 106 million by 2014. And Web-enabled smartphones, which are expected to account for the majority of cell phone purchases within a few years, consume 30 times the data of regular cell phones, according to Cisco Systems of San Jose.
Currently, wireless companies have 534 megahertz of spectrum allotted to them, with an additional 50 megahertz in the pipeline. The industry says it needs at least 800 megahertz more within six years to accommodate demand.
“Spectrum for us is our highway,” said Christopher Guttman-McCabe, vice president of regulatory affairs for CTIA-The Wireless Association, a trade group. “But the volume of traffic is picking up. Without more lanes, we’ll have more traffic and more congestion,” which will result in slower service.
When the shortage will become acute varies from market to market and carrier to carrier, he said, but it’s generally in the range of two to five years.
Obviously improvments will be made, but as in the population of the world, will we reach a point where there is no space left?
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