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> you can’t just throw money at infrastructure and get more bandwidth Can't you? You can always just keep decreasing the size of the individual cells in the ne

• crankylinuxuser 8y ago
  Of course you can do that. But each individual cell in an area raises the noise floor of that chunk of spectrum. And Shannon Information theory then has some pretty harsh things to say about that.
  • Retric 8y ago
    Outside of conventions that's a rather meaningless limitation. We could easily have 20x as many cell towers in the US without issue.
    • scarface74 8y ago
      Which doesn’t help depending on how congested the area it’s tryinb to cover. The biggest hurdle to getting more towers though is not the carrier, it’s city regulations.
      • jessaustin 8y ago
        Smaller cells use less intrusive antennae, often not even mounted on towers. The really big towers are for big cells like those covering rural interstates. No one complains about those towers.