The “highly, highly politicized” process of adding spectrum will deal...
The “highly, highly politicized” process of adding spectrum will deal with only 1 percent of the growth in mobile-data traffic in the coming years, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs said. Speaking at San Jose State University in California last week, he…
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said his company is pursuing technology solutions including the use of TDD for supplemental downlinks in unpaired spectrum like that Qualcomm sold to AT&T. Authorized shared access, allowing licensed spectrum use on a secondary basis, is being pursued mainly in Europe, Jacobs said. And use must be made of “higher and higher frequency bands where there might be larger and larger chunks of spectrum” available, he said. The TV white spaces aren’t suited to long-distance data services because they're unlicensed, so interference sources can pop up between ends of a communication, Jacobs said. Dissatisfaction with licensed services drives demand for unlicensed ones, but the right solution is fixing the shortcomings, he said.