The company offers to share its equipment fleet to meet the growing demand for wireless communication without additional equipment installation. NTT has even successfully tested network sharing, with a scheme asking operators of Wi-Fi hotspots or other connections if they are willing to share their bandwidth and allow random people to connect. The Wi-Fi hotspot operator gets the money and the user gets the connection.
If this system is scaled up, NTT estimates that Tokyo won’t need to add more Wi-Fi hotspots or dedicated 5G cells, even as demand increases.
The company also envisions that this will allow networks to scale without needing a proportional increase in energy consumption, freeing up spectrum for other uses.
If the attempt is successful, this approach could be repeated in other cities with more Wi-Fi hotspots.
Source: Ferra
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