4 Ways Carriers Are Fighting Wireless Data Demand
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Carriers can continue investing billions of dollars for network expansion and faster wired backhaul to wireless towers, but throwing money at infrastructure won’t work by itself. Here’s a quick look at some of the latest technical and pricing solutions that are now available, or coming soon, to ensure our wireless data pipes don’t clog: Cell towers in the home. By maintaining a minimal level of connectivity in a reduced power state, Fast Dormancy can also help offset the “achilles heel” of mobility: battery life. That’s a key reason AT&T purchased Wi-Fi provider Waypoint (and its 80,000 hotspots) in 2008 and explains why Verizon Wireless began partnering with Boingo last July to offer free Wi-Fi for its customers. According to Jeff Thompson, CEO of Towerstream, which monitored the hotspot, the Wi-Fi zone experienced single days with more than 1 terabyte in usage, not to mention 21 million connections in a quarter.
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