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Re:Hurricane LTE-U: Don’t Let Wi-Fi Get Blown Away by upofadown on Thursday November 05, 2015 @09:57AM (#10513626)
Viewed from this prospective then interference would be a feature, not a bug. Degrading WiFi would result in the use of less WiFi.
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Re:Hurricane LTE-U: Don’t Let Wi-Fi Get Blown Away by makomk on Thursday November 05, 2015 @12:52PM (#10514876)
Yeah, and users can't even run their own LTE-U base stations because - last I heard - it requires signalling on the licensed LTE frequencies to tell the end device to use the unlicensed LTE-U band for data. So if they make 5.8GHz unusable for anything except LTE-U, users will effectively have to pay the mobile telcos to run their own 5.8GHz access points on their own wired internet connections.
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