I have a wireless telecoms related technical supposition that I need to test. Big picture question.
There is a common refrain that with all the new bandwidth hungry devices, and the mobile market expanding rapidly, that there is “a shortage of spectrum”. This is kind of obvious, and is repeated often enough that it “must be true”. But is it?
Is it not possible that spectrum is infinitely divisible, and technically bandwidth could be more finely utilized than is currently the case? Something akin to compression technology or multiplexing which has made otherwise scarce wireline and fibre bandwidth more effectively used?
Is there some forward looking science going on around these possibilities? Kind of leads into a discussion about once all telecoms carriers migrate to LTE, what’s next?
