7 Technologies to Solve the Spectrum Crisis

Mobile broadband demand appears to be outstripping the supply of spectrum. But here are seven solutions that can make our airwaves go further. Carriers will still have to figure out how to keep their margins intact as the usages of their spectrum outstrips the current cost models around providing it.

1. ZTE’s Software Defined Radio;
2. Rajant’s Mesh Networking;
3. Carrier Aggregation (bonding a carrier’s disparate chunks of spectrum into a unified block);
4. Wi-Fi;
5. White Spaces;
6. Pico and Femtocells; and
7. LTE Advanced -- this standard will help cram more bits into each megahertz of spectrum as well as help operators more effectively reuse their spectrum

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