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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @06:51PM
i missed the ham-revolution :)
i missed the CB revolution.
i missed the beginnings of wifi.
started really late with mobile phone.
finally jump on the wifi bandwagon with "n". it's pretty niffty tech.
had the microwave for quiet a while tho.
the solution should probably be to combine both the licensed and unlicensed space into unlicensed space and then duke it out(*).
of course the carriers would scream about this ... u know because "INTERFERENCE!" but the wifi people would say the same stuff that the LTE-U supporters are now saying about LTE-U not interfering with wifi.
it is obvious that it WILL interfere. if there were a magical way to use more limited band-width in the unlicensed spectrum then i am preeetty sure the wifi people would have figured out a way to make use of it already : )
unfortunately, as it is now, it is really unlicensed spectrum and if the emitter doesn’t go beyond FCC mandated output power then this "other modulation" is completely legal and completely a dick move.
I hope LTE-U dies a horrible death ^_^
(*) of course in this combine spectrum case the clubbermet would intervene heavly since it would deprive them of some silly-stupid amounts of spectrum license monies.