The analysis that Intel’s lower peak throughput makes the iPhone 30% less efficient with spectrum stands on very shaky grounds. The effect needs to be coupled w

The analysis that Intel’s lower peak throughput makes the iPhone 30% less efficient with spectrum stands on very shaky grounds. The effect needs to be coupled with the probability that 1gb rate is actually allocatable to a phone: which requires exceedingly favorable conditions and is therefore rare in common usage. Secondly even when peak rate is available but not utilized the impact to spectrum efficiency tends to be minimal as the unused capacity can be allocated to other users (a complete analysis is complicated as it depends on the figure of merit that carriers use). There’s no way carriers would even accept a 10% reduction in bandwidth efficiency, even from Apple.