Worries mount over upcoming LTE-U deployments hurting Wi-Fi
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2989240/wi-fi/worries-mount-over-upcoming-lte-u-deployments-hurting-wi-fi.html
The catch, of course, is that LTE-U's frequencies are
already being used by every Wi-Fi access point in America, which
means that it runs the risk of interfering with networks that
home and business users rely on. While Qualcomm has sworn up
and down that LTE-U will include features that will avoid
interference with existing networks, there's little independent
proof of those claims. Unsurprisingly, several outside
experiments that pitted standard LTE technology or "simulated
LTE-U" technology, in the case of one in-depth Google study,
against Wi-Fi transmitters on the same frequencies found that
LTE drastically reduced the throughput on the Wi-Fi connection.
IEEE member and wireless expert Craig Mathias said that the way
LTE deals with interference makes it dominate frequencies that
it shares with Wi-Fi.
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As far as I'm concerned the carriers shouldn't be permitted to run their
commercial traffic through Wi-Fi frequencies -- period -- unless they do
it using conventional Wi-Fi transmission techniques, not new bullying
modulation schemes. Acting like total jerks as usual. *They want it
all.* Tell the FCC to stop this crap.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
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