WASHINGTON-If the Federal Communications Commission thought that the regulatory issues for mobile wireless were challenging, the issues for broadband wireless could be overwhelming.
“Broadband-wireless technologies are not yet at a point where one can say that they are able to provide high-speed access points into the home but we certainly seem to be on that path. Within maybe three, perhaps five years they could mature to the point where they may be ready for deployment in a majority of situations. As that happens, the challenges for our hosts here, the FCC, will become somewhere between profound and miserable,” said John Ryan, principal and chief of RHK.
Ryan presented his views about the future of wireless broadband and fourth-generation wireless before the FCC’s Technological Advisory Committee on Thursday.
While Ryan is in favor of a universal standard for fourth-generation wireless, he also said that the next generation of high-speed wireless technologies would come in various flavors. “There is no one single technology that will meet everyone’s needs,” he said.
Ryan caught some flack from committee members by maintaining that unlicensed Wi-Fi hot spots do not make a good business model.
