Comment on the FCC's LTE-U decision
The FCC has made a poor decision in allowing LTE-U to go ahead. It's not a win for consumers, it's a loss - and instead a win for big carrier corporates and their ilk who would rather see Wi-Fi dead and gone.
With this decision, the FCC is legitimising a threat to what is the biggest wireless success story in history (Wi-Fi) no matter how you measure it.
Here's the question that the LTE-U community needs to answer:
Why not use the LAA version (listen-before-talk) instead of the much more aggressive LTE-U version of unlicensed LTE? Europe & Japan have made listen-before-talk (the 'politeness' algorithm) mandatory and for good reason.
It is simply not reasonable that Wi-Fi services - which naturally back off in the presence of others on the band (contention) - should be threatened by a technology that does not support & respect the same rules of engagement.
Fortunately, the small cells business case for carriers is still pretty awful. So we can only hope that LTE-U will soon be relegated to the trash bin of tech history.
/Claus.
Snapdragon Chipset Product Mgmt @ Qualcomm | Mobile Strategy and Marketing | 5G Partnerships | Technology Leadership
8 年LTEU isn't prohibited on using LBT. Most vendors plan to. please do your homework
Mobile Products & Wireless Technologies Leader || twitter.com/SamirKhazaka
8 年here are some good links and reading materials https://www.qualcomm.com/invention/technologies/lte/unlicensed
Vice President of Technology Partnerships
8 年Interesting that the Wi-Fi Alliance has not yet commented on the FCC ruling . . . nor have I seen formal comments from any of the major Wi-Fi OEMs. Does anyone have a sense of how the "Wi-Fi industry" is receiving this news?
Executive Vice President Global IOT and Co Founder at Globalgig
8 年Don't count on it...
IoT Attorney at Marashlian & Donahue, PLLC
8 年Claus, your concerns are certainly understandable. Wi-Fi is certainly a huge success story, and the Wi-Fi industry has never been enamored of LTE-U. LAA is likely to be utilized heavily in the 3.5 GHz band. I wrote about this about a year ago: https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/coming-soon-wireless-technology-complies-35-ghz-5-spectrum-quirk?trk=pulse_spock-articles