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The Wi-Fi Alliance says it’s taken more steps toward compromise since backers of LTE-Unlicensed slammed a coexistence workshop that took place last week. But those moves haven’t brought about wireless peace just yet.
LTE-U is a system for running LTE networks in some of the unlicensed frequencies used by Wi-Fi. The workshop, the latest of several intended to make sure LTE-U doesn’t unfairly interfere with Wi-Fi, brought together participants that want to use the new cellular system as well as those devoted to Wi-Fi.
When it was done, the Alliance said a test for coexistence was on track for completion next month. However, LTE-U supporters, including Qualcomm, said the whole effort was technically unsound and biased against them.
Representatives of both sides are supposed to be working toward consensus on a test to make sure LTE-U and Wi-Fi products can get along. But some LTE-U backers objected to aspects of the proposed test plan after the workshop last week.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday August 15 2016, @04:11PM
I've seen semi-vaporware examples of 200 megabits/sec for LTE-U.
You can see why most people don't care; I have moved to google fi and have the 1 gig plan (not literally, their structure is a little weird but this phrasing will make sense to normies) and at 0.2 mbps line rate it'll take me about 40 seconds of use to zero out my entire monthly quota.
Also I know of no applications to use more than a couple megs/sec usefully. Yeah sure background bulk transfer... that should be in the background where I don't care how long it takes.