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I am not talking about using the pager network for that, I am talking about the 2G network. I am not opposed to using more efficient network protocols, more th
by jake_morrison 7y ago
I am not talking about using the pager network for that, I am talking about the 2G network.
I am not opposed to using more efficient network protocols, more that we are endlessly replacing old technologies with completely new systems. The selling point of 3G/4G/5G has been that they will have more bandwidth, so people can watch videos or use self driving cars.
What is more interesting to me is embedding cheap low-bandwidth smarts in more devices. The costs of the new and immature hardware gets in the way of that.
- icebraining 7y agoHandling a large number of IoT devices has definitively been one of the major selling points of 5G.
- Foivos 7y agoOne of the goals of 4G/5G is to allow for the coexistence of high bandwidth devices with IoT. I agree that at this point the cost of cellular IoT is higher than it should and the technology is immature. In the long term though, it would be a better choice than keeping a 2G network.
- zamadatix 7y ago> The selling point of 3G/4G/5G has been that they will have more bandwidth, so people can watch videos or use self driving cars. In the cellphone commercial sure but in technical reality it's about device density. There is only one set of airspace and only certain chunks are useful for where we want to communicate; getting the most devices able to communicate has been the leading driver of RF planning and design for quite some time now. Bandwidth usually materializes out of a combination of more "slots" to talk and simply not using restrictions needed for 20 year old consumer hardware.