In fact, he was referring to the growth of network capacity, not network traffic.
And it also overlooks the history of U.S. innovators to take advantage of increased network capacity.
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And instead of getting an exclusive franchise, Earthlink agreed to re-sell network capacity to other providers who ask.
Rather like text messaging on a mobile phone, data travel over spare network capacity not used by telephone calls.
One challenge was making sure that the network capacity could handle the demands of the many smartphones and tablet users.
Sprint is uniquely positioned to maximize the value of Clearwire's spectrum and efficiently deploy it to increase Sprint's network capacity.
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Virgin is a so-called virtual operator, which leases network capacity from an existing operator and markets services under its own brand.
It buys network capacity in bulk from carriers so users can send text messages for free (in India subscribers don't have to pay for receiving texts).
In addition to T-Mobile customers experiencing speeds twice as fast as T-Mobile's current 4G network on compatible devices, customers also will enjoy increased network capacity and reliability.
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Instagram photos consume huge amounts of bandwidth (network capacity), and increasingly sophisticated apps will need ever more capacious and robust wireless connections to realize their full power.
Recently, the European telcos called for Google, Apple, and others responsible for this new demand to contribute toward the cost of increasing network capacity an area to watch closely.
HomePlug AV has been the powerline technology of choice, and AV2 provides an aggressive migration path to support greater network capacity and distribution of ultra-high quality content throughout the home.
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By comparison to analog and GSM-based technologies, 3G CDMA technology has advantages such as increased network capacity, network flexibility, compatibility with internet protocols, higher capacity for data and faster access to Internet.
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To date SMS GupShup has signed up 30 million users and now buys network capacity to send roughly 1 billion text messages a month, as much as 8% of the SMS text traffic in India.
This patent portfolio is derived from over a decade of research, development, and testing, and covers methods for increasing spectrum utilization (network capacity), expanding coverage, improving uplink transmission speeds at the cell edge, and improving device battery life.
What would have been more interesting is to have the 4G spectrum administered in a similar way to other public utilities, where the actual backbone of the system is administered by one company, and the network providers would buy capacity and transmission from the network pool.
"We need to do that by upgrading our network and trying to maximise capacity in our existing network on the mainland, " he added.
The traffic was mistakenly shifted to a lower capacity network, which was unable to handle the traffic.
In a recent test on a commercial network, using superconducting filters increased that network's capacity by half.
Many retailers increase network traffic and capacity to accommodate for the rise in online shoppers during Cyber Monday and the holiday season.
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The startup, which wants to establish a nationwide LTE network and sell capacity on a wholesale basis, now aims to start building in mid-December.
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Called the Future Combat System, it was a family of 18 ground and airborne vehicles, both manned and unmanned, that would be linked together by a wireless network of unprecedented capacity.
This one-way spectrum (down to devices) can be used to off-load a 3G or 4G network and send the streaming video over the one-way network, freeing up more capacity on the two-way network.
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Put simply, this means creating pools of processing power, storage capacity and network bandwidth.
Main differences between the high and low end of the tablet market are memory capacity and network.
Companies who are building their own managed intranets, such as Delta Three and Qwest, with its ultra-high capacity fibre network, will avoid congestion.
The Denver-based communications company is laying approximately 18, 500 miles of Macro Capacity Fiber Network, an all-digital backbone that will connect over 130 cities by this March.
The company is constructing a next-generation 4G LTE Advanced-ready network to address the capacity needs of the market, and is also working closely with the Global TDD-LTE Initiative to further the TDD-LTE ecosystem.
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