Can this person's idea increase mobile phone signals and bandwidth by 100s of times?

The good: It uses the same phones we already have.



The bad: It needs new towers. New towers cost $$. That pretty much ensures it will never happen where I live. :D



The ugly: They are getting the "1000 times faster" number from the fact that everyone has their own entire cell. Meaning you don't have to share it with anyone. Meaning that in rural areas your actual increase might not even be tenfold.



This Man Says He Can Speed Cell Data 1,000-Fold. Will Carriers Listen?

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With today’s networks, each antenna — perched atop a building or tower — creates a massive “cell” of wireless signal. This is essentially an enormous cone of radio waves that spans several city blocks, and it’s shared by all phones in the area. But Perlman’s invention discards the arrangement, giving each phone its own tiny cell, a bubble of signal that goes wherever the phone goes. This “personal cell” provides just as much network bandwidth as today’s cells, Perlman says, but you needn’t share the bandwidth with anyone else. The result is a significantly faster signal. “Everybody gets a little cell, that’s about a centimeter in size, around your phone. That gives you incredible density. Everyone gets the full spectrum of the channel in one centimeter of space,” explains Perlma

It also allows antennas to be packed together, which apparently current technology does not:

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Though it provides a personal cell for each phone, it doesn’t require a greater number of antennas. Unlike today’s antennas, Perlman’s radios can work in concert to focus signals on individual phones. With current wireless networks, each antenna operates mostly alongside the others, as opposed to working in tandem with them. In fact, if you put two antennas too close, they’ll interfere with each other and degrade your signal. But <snip> With pCell, interference actually enhances a signal, with multiple waves combining to form even stronger waves. “You can locate the radio heads wherever you want them, rather than where it’s convenient to put them,” Perlman says, “and they all transmit in such a way that there’s huge overlap…creating an extremely high-performance signal”

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And more to the point, it will require a whole new world of antennas. These antennas are relatively small, but rolling them out would still require an enormous capital investment — an investment the big carriers are unlikely to make any time soon.

In a few hours (from the time I made this post) he is going to give the first public demonstration of the tech at Columbia University in New York.

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