Artemis, a company that claims to have cutting-edge wireless technology is bidding for space and opportunity to implement its technology in San Francisco
The company has entered into a venture with Dish Network Corp to use the latter's 'H" band frequencies to implement its proprietary pCell technology in the latter's LTE networks. This will be an arrangement that is scheduled to last now for two years. This arrangement will need to be approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Explaining the way that this technology works, Kyle Russell explained in Tech Crunch magazine thay Artemis's pCell technology uses "small, router-like radio's called pWaves. Rather than blanketing an area with signal as carriers do with towers today, Artemis's radios focus on the receiving devices."
Russell added that "once you've got several in an area, multiple radios can point to any given mobile device, providing a more consistently fast experience, and it's all compatible with devices built for the current LTE infrastructure."
Artemis CEO Steve Perlman claims that this new technology will allow network capacity to be increased 35 times, reported the Wall Street Journal.
Perlman had previously established such tech companies as OnLive and WebTV Networks. Microsoft bought the latter company for a reported USD 425 million. Prior to that he also worked with Apple on the development of their Quicktime media player.
Should the FCC approval come through - which is expected to happen in the next six months - LTE users in San Francisco could start accessing the new pCell network by just by replacing their current SIM cards with new ones that Artemis would provide.
The promise of this new technology is of being able to generate several times more capacity with pretty much the same, current, LTE infrastructure.