Wireless Services Increasingly Strained As Mobile Explodes

Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 11:30 in Mathematics & Economics

A new report warns that the exploding usage of radio waves by broadband-devouring smartphones and video threatens to deplete a finite wireless spectru m.“If you look at traffic patterns over the past five years, we went from things like illegal music downloads, to legal music downloads, to video,” said technology adviser and report author Michael Kleeman at University of California San Diego. “Video is the primary driver of Internet usage in the United States.” [More]

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