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Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)


From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 22:52:00 +0200



On 30/May/18 22:49, Ben Cannon wrote:

The reason you see one or two bars in inner cities in 2018, is that
given fixed spectrum, bandwidth on the aggregate can only increase if
you take many smaller lower power radios, and carpet the area with
them.  

The only other solutions are radically increase the power, or
radically increase the width of the spectrum.

Not dissimilar problems with (SP) wi-fi scaling in dense applications.

My point is we don't generally have this issue in the major African
cities that I regularly visit, so any perspectives based on what the
U.S. may be going through cannot be wholesomely applied to other global
regions.

Mark.


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