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Is Wi-Fi ready for prime time?

Initially, Wi-Fi was seen by some operators as a cost effective way of dumping high capacity mobile broadband data users or devices onto other, less expensive network and transport mechanisms, hence off-loading their expensive licensed spectrum radio networks. More and … Continue reading

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Brute force won’t solve capacity crunch

Mobile communications will never be the same again. So why do vendors encourage mobile operators to behave as if they can turn back the clock??? We have become an always-on, data-centric society. Users’ expectations of and behavior on mobile broadband … Continue reading

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Status quo carries a debilitating dose of inertia

In January 2009, Stoke declared 2009 “The Year of Offload.” In view of the attention “Offload” garnered at the recently concluded Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, it seems the mobile broadband industry has finally caught up – almost exactly 12 … Continue reading

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