Numerous digital data sources are becoming available because of a combination of increasing data storage, data processing and data transmission productivity (effective available bandwidth appears to double approximately every 21 months).

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The answer to the bandwidth shortage could be cost-effective cell splitting, complementing the existing wide area base stations with a large number of smaller base stations.

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Those meetings at the White House were effective in garnering approval for his plan and the awarding of some bandwidth shortly thereafter by the FCC.

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