Mobile broadband use has reached an all time high in terms of usage in the United States and the users’ numbers keep on growing by the day. Electronic giants like Apple and Motorola keep on feeding the public with awe and excitement as they launch their new mobile internet capable devices. Apple’s iPhone 4 just hit the store last month and the purchase statistics is just massive. Android phones are flooding the market like candy and the Americans love it. But the new issue is, ca n the mobile internet providers maintain a decent level of connectivity and signal for this growing number of subscribers?
Well, President Obama is making adjustments to assure that the American public is not left behind by its European and Asian neighbors. In a brave move to augment the lack of broadband wavelength that will provide mobile connectivity, President Obama signed a new memorandum that directs the FCC to make available at least five hundred megahertz of government and non-government airwaves for public consumption. This would-be available band will be utilized for both fixed and mobile broadband connectivity purposes.
The goal is to make double the current wavelength being used by the public today. There is too much data clogging happening and these results in either poor or zero mobile connectivity and for some months now, new mobile technology has been proven worthless without enough mobile internet broadband available to the public. The length of time this amount of broadband signal would be made available for us is the next. Since gadgets and other electronic devices are being sold and launched like Frisbees, five years is too long for the mobile industry to get a move on.
What the government wants is to free some of the broadband waves being used by some radio stations, marine communications, military radars, et cetera. They have been deemed as not being able to maximize the use of these broadband just because it is not that necessary. However, some private companies are not too happy in giving away some of their wavelengths because they may have plans for it in the near future.
In this regard, United States mobile companies are now starting to expand their coverage by building new cell sites and adding more towers. Some have even launched 4G capability and LTE high speed networks.
While the battle for better coverage is ongoing, phone companies continue to develop and sell the latest mobile capable gadgets in the market without thinking first about being able to deliver what they promise in terms of usability of features in the middle of this signal crisis.
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