It's Still the Network, Stupid
By: Brian Clark|Senior Web Video Editor
Fortunately, for consumers, the FCC's recently-released broadband plan has a provision to free up more spectrum to expand wireless networks over the next ten years.
Until then, it is possible 4G will bring the home Internet experience to mobile users. In fact, Strother equates the jump from 3g to 4G to going from dial-up to broadband. Most people, he says, are pretty satisfied with their home connections. “Perhaps 4G will have a similar story,” he says, “but you can't bet on it yet.”
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According to Forrester Research, the number of mobile Internet users in the U.S. will double over the next five years, from 52 million today to some 106 million by 2015. As more handsets are sold, the demands on wireless networks increase exponentially.