Re:A World Without Wi-Fi Looks Possible as Unlimited Plans Rise
by libeclipse on Friday March 10, 2017 @07:50AM
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It should also be noted that WiFi uses considerably less battery than mobile data does, so while convenient, this probably won't replace WiFi anytime soon unless there's a massive boost to battery technology.
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Re:A World Without Wi-Fi Looks Possible as Unlimited Plans Rise
by legulere on Friday March 10, 2017 @08:45AM
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I heard that for the first time, so I looked around and found this paper: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~lierranli/coms6998-7Spring2014/p...
Here the problem seems to be that the base power needed (beta in table 4) is way higher than for wifi.
I wonder if the numbers have changed since 2012 though.