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Jun 8, 2018 6 min

Why Does Apple want Unlicensed Spectrum?

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Because the lesson of the FC App Delivery Membrane is that anything that touches the marginal cost computing power of the cloud must be capital efficient. Wi-Fi is the most capital-efficient element in the ADM today and, as a result, has sucked so much bandwidth out of networks that most of us hop from Wi-Fi island to Wi-Fi island. Licensed spectrum, like 4G and 5G, is an unwieldy and immensely expensive bridge between these islands. Apple wants none of that to get between itself and its customers future applications.

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