If they could fix Austin by bringing in some temporary cells, then they're facing something besides the laws of physics, at least for that one town. How does the denisty & bandwidth use compare with Tokyo, Japan?
At some point you have to accept that there is finite bandwidth. Shannon says that if you have an arbitrarily noisy channel, you can get data through it slowly.
The problem is that people don't want slowly, they want it now.
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AT&T has more of a scalability problem than most businesses. Usually you don't have the laws of physics coming in to interfere quite as strictly.
If they could fix Austin by bringing in some temporary cells, then they're facing something besides the laws of physics, at least for that one town. How does the denisty & bandwidth use compare with Tokyo, Japan?
At some point you have to accept that there is finite bandwidth. Shannon says that if you have an arbitrarily noisy channel, you can get data through it slowly.
The problem is that people don't want slowly, they want it now.
And how does the red tape required to add a tower/antenna compare?
The iPhone has been out for over two years now. There isn't that much red tape.
Have you been to a community meeting about adding new cell antennas in (for example) San Francisco or Berkeley? It ain't pretty. See for example:
http://www.antennafreeunion.org/
http://www.no-celltower.com/