Not Enough Air Space for Wireless?

from the wireless-scarcity dept

Everyone seems to be working on a wireless play these days, and the end result is that there may not be enough air space for all these wireless devices. Whoever thought we’d run out of air space as a natural resource?


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mhh5 says:

I'm no expert...

I thought I saw an article that said we could get around the airspace problem by using shorter-ranged devices. Just imagine a bunch of very good walkie-talkies that can do P2P networking. If enough of them existed, then you could “recycle” air space due to the short-range limitations… If anyone else knows more about this, speak up.

Bryan Bigari` says:

Exactly

If you think of the way cell/PCS phones work, you can actually operate the phones on very little spectrum if you stack the cells closer together. There are problems when you take it to extremes, but the main problem is the cost of the basestations (equipment, getting neighborhoods to agree to put in equip, etc) make it prohibitive.

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