OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/25142/Rice_University_has_figured_out_how_to_double_capacity_on_3G_4G_networks Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 23 May 2013 16:20:36 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Double capacity? http://www.osnews.com/thread?488793 http://www.osnews.com/thread?488793 I can see this having an effect on voice calls, where the uplink and downlink data are roughly the same, however with data, I think almost all the data is going to the mobile phone and this change will have a minimal effect on this component.

So what percentage of the bandwidth is data? Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (winter) Comments This doesn't address the problem http://www.osnews.com/thread?488817 http://www.osnews.com/thread?488817 This doesn't address the real problems.

1. 3G networks are already overloaded by people using them as their everyday internet connection, watching Youtube etc. Allowing higher throughput on existing infrastructure will make the problem worse, not better.

2. 3G connections are still prone to "dropping out" occasionally; more likely in the middle of an important download. If Rice University can figure out a way of making 3G networks more reliable, THEN I'll be impressed. Otherwise, next loser. Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (3rdalbum) Comments Idiot reporters... http://www.osnews.com/thread?488871 http://www.osnews.com/thread?488871
In effect, this at least doubles the capacity of the line


Uh... no. It at MOST doubles the capacity. If it works PERFECTLY, you COULD have the same amount being transmitted as received. If you don't need to do one or the other, or if it's not quite perfect on the canceling, you'll have less than double, all the way down to (worst case) no more than you had before. Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JLF65) Comments