This proposed solution on WCS spectrum, which is still under review by the FCC, effectively creates much-needed new spectrum capacity.
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By any measure, the wireless industry is approaching a spectrum capacity crisis.
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I'd pledge to unwind FCC and leave it with the residual job of spinning off spectrum and capacity to the shareholder marketplace.
The report states that spectrum sharing could multiply the effective capacity of spectrum by a factor of 1, 000.
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The wireless carrier desperately wants to acquire additional spectrum to expand capacity, improve service and give the company a competitive edge over Verizon.
City are unbeaten in 11 games since the start of the season and Rayner is keen to capitalise on home advantage at the 1, 000 capacity Spectrum stadium.
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.
That would be all the more reason for Sprint to just acquire Clearwire and its existing network, spectrum and very efficient backhaul capacity.
Furthermore, technical improvements to boost the capacity of existing spectrum and further auctions in 2007 and 2008 mean the wireless industry will be increasingly competitive.
The more spectrum they have, the more capacity they have at their disposal to move information and offer additional services.
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The cheapest way to increase capacity is to add more spectrum or to move a network to a lower frequency, which allows radio waves to penetrate walls more easily.
As long as the FCC fails to inject major amounts of spectrum into the marketplace, or strongly hints that future spectrum could be off limits to carriers with specific spectrum portfolios, the agency leaves companies facing capacity shortages in the near term with no solution other than secondary market purchases or to raise retail prices.
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Chaplin contends Sprint will need more capacity than they can support on their own spectrum.
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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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In late June, Verizon Wireless announced an agreement with a subsidiary of T-Mobile USA Inc. to exchange spectrum in the AWS band in specific markets to meet LTE capacity needs and enable LTE expansion.
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The pace at which consumers are purchasing and using tablets and smartphones is expected to outpace the capacity of wireless networks to support them unless more spectrum is made available to U.S. wireless carriers in the near future.
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But these hard-won successes do not remove the real risk of spectrum depletion if the FCC does not move quickly to free more capacity.
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Those same capacity constraints make it hard for smaller competitors to obtain enough spectrum to pose a serious threat to the largest incumbents.
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At its height, says Andrew Heaney of Spectrum, a consultancy, telecoms operators built seven years'-worth of capacity in a single year.
The PCAST report concluded that the best way to increase capacity is to use new technologies that will enable large blocks of spectrum to be shared.
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These secondary market transactions could quickly inject real capacity into the market and thus smooth the transition to a future where auctioned spectrum, technology, and small cells yield more bandwidth.
In the DOJ's opinion, an incumbent carrier would need to demonstrate both compelling evidence of capacity constraints and an efficient use of its current licenses in order to gain additional lower frequency spectrum.
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