Some people are pessimistic about the potential for wireless internet. The only reason cell phone data is “unlimited” is because no one actually uses it. When they do, they are charged until they don’t:

China Mobile recently changed the way users are charged for sending and receiving data on their phones by no longer allowing unlimited access to the mobile Web and data downloads. While promoting content on its own wireless Web portal, called Monternet, China Mobile has been sending users a message as they try to connect to sites outside the portal, telling them they will be charged for data use outside Monternet. The result is dramatically lower traffic for those sites.

Until multiple information currents can travel inside the same slice of spectrum, separated by distance, there are fundamental limits to wireless bandwidth.

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