Here at CTIA a common theme expounded in most meetings is the need to drive bandwidth-hungry mobile services. Whether this is motivated by the desire to supress device price erosion orby the notion of connecting more bandwidth-hungry services with higher ARPUs, this is flawed.
What the industry really needs to focus on is lowering the cost per bit per hertz. This can only be serviced by a rapid transition in core network and backhual architectures coupled with innovative content caching and routing solutions. A failure to sort backhual and core network dimensioning will cripple 4G. We will have smart, capable devices running on archaic underprovisioned networks. Most importantly - a correct dimensioning of the network will be crucial in reducing the cost of 4G services of the future.
What the industry really needs to focus on is lowering the cost per bit per hertz. This can only be serviced by a rapid transition in core network and backhual architectures coupled with innovative content caching and routing solutions. A failure to sort backhual and core network dimensioning will cripple 4G. We will have smart, capable devices running on archaic underprovisioned networks. Most importantly - a correct dimensioning of the network will be crucial in reducing the cost of 4G services of the future.
