Google, Microsoft, Comcast Say Verizon’s New Cellular Tech Could Wreck Wi-Fi

Re:Google, Microsoft, Comcast Say Verizon’s New Cellular Tec... by pmontra on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:37PM (#10692058)

If LTE-U degrades WiFi won't it work in the other way too, WiFi degrading LTE-U? If this is the case it's going to be difficult to use LTE-U inside or close to homes, which are probably the most crowded areas and so the use case of LTE-U. It could be a difficult product to sell.

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Re:Google, Microsoft, Comcast Say Verizon’s New Cellular Tec... by JoshTriplett on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:39PM (#10692072)

Depends on wifi's reaction to what amounts to noise. Given a polite protocol that checks before sending, and a protocol that rudely blasts out a signal without checking, the latter will "win".

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Re:Google, Microsoft, Comcast Say Verizon’s New Cellular Tec... by qb45 on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:42PM (#10692101)

LTE-U surely won't be at a disadvantage to WiFi because it's designed with WiFi in mind.

Congestion-wise it will probably look like yet another WiFi AP, or zillion of them if it gets deployed sufficiently widely.

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