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WiFi versus LTE to dominate the future of mobile services

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Technology or market? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-02-18 07:23 (#3AKT)

Is there a technological reason that LTE is more expensive, or is it just that (up to now) the mobile providers can afford to charge a premium?

Re: Technology or market? (Score: 1, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-02-18 18:07 (#3BSR)

LTE runs on licensed spectrum, which costs lots of money. You're the only one using the spectrum, so you can use more powerful transceivers to cover wider areas. WiFi runs on unregulated spectrum, which is free, but potentially noisy. You also can't (legally) have a single WiFi access point cover a very large area as you're power limited.

This is in the USA at least. Other countries may have different laws regarding spectrum.

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2015-02-18 19:38 Informative +1 bryan@pipedot.org

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