![]() “This is a lot like the energy crisis If no one changes their behaviour or does anything differently, then we have a problem,” Harold Feld, legal director of the internet freedom advocacy group Public Knowledge, told Al Jazeera. North American mobile networks are running at 80 per cent capacity, with a third of base stations facing capacity constraints, according to a Credit Suisse survey from 2010. “Wireless communication only occurs between the users’ device to the base station or access point,” Dr Jaeweon Kim, an information technology expert, told Al Jazeera. If you imagine all the data streaming between your handset and your provider as flowing through a pipe, the measure of available “bandwidth” is the diameter of that pipe – the more bandwidth (the wider the pipe), the more data can flow and the faster and more reliable your online access. ![]() ![]() Mobile internet relies on the quality of the connection between a wireless device and an internet service provider – companies which hold the gateway to internet access and essentially rent out chunks to users for a fee. Mobile data traffic is expected to increase 26 times between 20, according to the New York City Media lab, a collaboration of top universities and technology executives, who warn: “Current networks could choke under the strain.” The problem seems most acute in the US, where there are more wireless devices than people, according to a 2011 report from the wireless industry association. Keep reading list of 4 items list 1 of 4 New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft for infringing copyrighted works list 2 of 4 Intel gets $3.2bn grant to build $25bn chip plant in Israel list 3 of 4 Israel’s AI-powered ‘mass assassination factory’ list 4 of 4 Uncanny valley: What’s the latest TikTok makeup trend? end of list
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