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Radio Tech Could Halve Bandwidth Needs

posted by Cactus on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the can-you-hear-me-now? dept.

AnonTechie writes:

According to an article from The Register, a team from Stanford University has patented technology that could halve the bandwidth that a mobile provider needs.

Operating under the name Kumu Networks, they are showcasing tech which they claim would exactly double throughput. Radio equipment (such as mobile phones) would be able to send and receive on the same frequency through a process similar to noise-cancelling headphones; by knowing what a base station is transmitting it can cancel out the information from the very faint signal it receives.

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Desler on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:49PM

    by Desler (880) on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:49PM (#8129)

    And even if it was real why would any carrier care? They make gobs of profits off of scarcity not a glut of available bandwidth.

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