FCC warns of looming mobile spectrum crunch

Monday, 08 November 2010 09:33

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Can wireless carriers' mobile broadband networks keep pace with the fast-growing demand for mobile data? Maybe not. The Federal Communication Commission predicts a "looming spectrum crunch" in a recently published paper, Mobile Broadband: The Benefits of Additional Spectrum.

According to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, "The explosive growth in mobile communications is outpacing our ability to keep up. If we don't act to update our spectrum policies for the 21st century, we're going to run into a wall -- a spectrum crunch -- that will stifle American innovation and economic growth and cost us the opportunity to lead the world in mobile communications."

The agency predicts that U.S. mobile data users will start feeling the spectrum crunch within five years. Users of smartphones, tablets, PC aircards and MiFi-style routers, and even feature phones (which are adding data capabilities fast) will feel this pinch. It will hinder the speed, quality, performance and reliability of wireless broadband connections.

Read more in the November 5, 2010 CNN "FCC warns of looming mobile spectrum crunch"

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