The high bandwidth usage of smartphones could bring about a “capacity crunch” on worldwide networks that can only be solved by a more painstaking tactic to stratagem and application growth. Or so says Mike Lazardis, the CEO of BlackBerry-maker Investigation in Motion.
In an interview for Reuters, Lazardis is cited as saying that United States is already undergoing a important stress on its mobile networks brought about by smartphones—which, given recent reports, can be interpreted as a sideways jab at the iPhone. The high data usage of iPhone has, in many thickly colonized areas, encumbered AT&T’s cellular network, ensuing in poor wireless speeds and other connectivity glitches.
Lazardis’ view, which Reuters claims is communal by other industry forecasters, is based on the premise that, on cellular networks, bandwidth is a partial product shared by all users—unlike wired networks, which “boast enormous data-carrying capacity.”
This claim is defective for an integer of reasons. Wired and wireless networks work on basically the same premise: manifold consumers part the same bandwidth, with traffic sectioned into slighter interrelated units—local networks in one occasion, and mobile cells in the other. In fact, the data traffic generated by mobile handsets is effectively collected at a cell repeater and then retransmitted (often across a wired connection) through a loyal connection to the Internet.
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