YouTube launches livestreaming as carriers struggle with uplink performance
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/youtube-launches-livestreaming-carriers-struggle-uplink-performance/2016-06-24?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mrkid=872848&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpjeE5Ea3pOek5qTVRBeiIsInQiOiJGT3pUMkhSbTF2d2FtUnlzblJFYVFzUlJ2K0RYY3UwVjRQak1Wc2ZqRGlIRXFnOGZZaWNOWkZmMWdGVnV1MXI4dVFqVml6TnF2ZktWMFJnR1BWd0JWWCtPMGk0OTRCTTFZTThoWE4wcmVRUT0ifQ%3D%3D But U.S. carriers may struggle to support YouTube's new feature if it takes off quickly. Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) said earlier this week that while LTE network download speeds have improved steadily in recent years, upload speeds have stagnated. Operators around the world have made incremental improvements on the downlink side thanks to technologies such as carrier aggregation, but haven't paid as much attention to uplink performance. - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
