Power per bit per km from tower is slowly decreasing there, but it requires a new clever noise floor hack for each generation.
For a given modulation scheme, the power required to reliably transmit one bit a specific distance is effectively fixed by the laws of physics.
Re:Moore's law hits the roof
by paulddraper on Sunday December 27, 2015 @03:26PM
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Also: better batteries.
That helps smartphones and electric cars.
The smartphone is the first universal tech for mankind, and CPU is not the bottleneck there, it's screens & radios, all batteries being equal of course.