Dishwants to bea mobile headphone carrier . Dish require it big . And Steve Perlman — the genius behind QuickTime , WebTV and OnLive — has spent over a tenner work on technical school that could allegedly leapfrog our current cubicle meshwork . So infer who just team up to potentially revolutionize the mobile cyberspace ? Yep .
Dish just agreed to lease some of its substantial new wireless spectrum to Artemis Networks , the company that Perlman create to commercialise the so - call “ pCell ” technology . And with that spectrum , Artemis plans to blanket San Francisco with some unhinged - dissolute , crazy - efficient mobile data point . As soon as it can get FCC favourable reception , at any rate .
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What ’s so great about pCell , anyhow ? It ’s pretty uncomplicated : Where existing cellular networks have to be space out to avoid interference , leaving all in zone between them and slow stop number on the edges of each cell tower ’s domain , pCell claims to actually take vantage of interference by intelligently overlap wireless signals , creating localized pockets of sign right at your smartphone ’s antenna . As each phone broadcasts its location , the pCell web figures out what combination of signal the pCell antenna demand to transmit to add together up to a stable connection .
What ’s more , it can plainly do that trick for lode of earphone at the same time , giving each of them a full upper data connexion rather of one connection that gets throttled as the internet gets crowded . Here ’s a demo of that :
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How does it do all this ? That ’s a way more complicated inquiry , and one whose answerrequires a 99 - page white paper to excuse .
But as far as you or I are concerned , it could be as simple as adhere new SIM cards into our live earpiece and suddenly take in amazing signal and speed . You see , pCell apparently mould with live LTE technology , so nothing needs to be modified on the phone . All the workplace happens on the mobile carrier side of things . As long as you ’ve got an iPhone 6 , iPhone 6 Plus or compatible Android French telephone , you should be able to give it a go .
But probably not for tenacious , because Perlman says Artemis Networks does n’t plan to be a nomadic carrier itself . The company ’s look to get existing fluid carriers interested , and this SF tryout is designed to show the skeptics that the tech can really mould . Perlmanactually bring in the estimate four geezerhood agounder the name DIDO , but it did n’t take off . If this time is dissimilar , it ’ll plausibly get licensed to an AT&T or Verizon or T - Mobile … or maybe even Dish . Who have intercourse .
It would n’t be the first time Perlman ’s demonstrate that gaga new tech really make . His last venture , OnLive , was n’t kill by too little tech — but rather too much ego . [ ArtemisviaGigaOM ]
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