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How Qualcomm is getting ready for the coming mobile data crunch

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Demand for mobile data will increase 10 times by 2020 — reaching about 25 exabytes a month (that's 25,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) — up from the current 2.5 exabytes, according to Ericsson and Cisco. Mobile data networks are slowly evolving to handle the growing demand, and Qualcomm is venturing forward with a way to use airwaves that are usually reserved for Wi-Fi.


Wi-Fi exists in a part of the spectrum that's often referred to as "unlicensed spectrum." Different wireless providers lease chunks of spectrum from the government (usually through a public auction) to support their networks, but — as they often like to say — there is never enough of it. The frequencies that Wi-Fi operate (2.4 and 5GHz), however, are off-limits, to ensure those devices work properly. Read more...


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