The demand for bandwidth – the infrastructure which allows people to make phone calls, surf the net and connect with each other – seems insatiable. And in the US and beyond, from the boardrooms of major phone companies, down to college campuses, research labs and internet coffee shops, some users worry there simply won’t be enough to go around in the near future.”I think there will be a major crunch in the next few years,” Kang Shin, professor of computer science at the University of Michigan, told Al Jazeera. “The number of these mobile services and applications is mind boggling and the smart phone user population is growing … The wireless spectrum doesn’t just grow on trees.”To read this Al Jazeera report in full, see:
www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/02/201227174212570830.html