When Five Bars of Coverage Are Not Enough

Author: Aditya Kaul, Practice Director, Mobile Networks

Published: 05 Oct 2009

As mobile network usage expands, most of it driven by data usage — especially in the developed world — the topology of networks is coming into question. The idea that networks could grow by shrinking is intriguing, something related to the physics of the air interface. While backhaul and fatter pipes are the needs of the hour, a largely ignored part of the mobile network is the air interface between the base station and the mobile device. The air interface just might be the elephant in the room when it comes to improving capacity in networks.

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