By Tom Simonite, Technology Review
Mobile network speeds in urban areas could dramatically increase if consumers connected small, public base stations to their home broadband. Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm and some U.S. wireless carriers are investigating an idea that would see small cellular base stations installed in homes to serve passing smartphone users. That approach is believed to be a more efficient way of meeting the rising demand for data and fixing patchy coverage than building more traditional cell-phone towers.
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