Verizon is pushing other leading carriers to move some of the huge volume of internet data from the cellular system to the unlicensed Wi-Fi spectrum. The proposed system would consist of a combination of smaller cell towers and home wireless routers with proposed name “LTE-U”. However, Google, Microsoft, Comcast, and others, have been lobbying FCC to delay LTE-U’s adoption, pending further tests. The fear is that with the volume of data moving off the mobile carrier networks onto Wi-Fi, data throughout of existing Wi-Fi systems would suffer. Verizon, and the others, maintain moving the high volume of data off their networks would improve voice communication and reliability. The FCC wants the two industry groups to work things out for themselves and “resolve this in a broad-based standard”, says FCC Chairman, Tom Wheeler.
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