How ironic that for much of the middle two days of the four-day Congress — the industry’s flagship venue for showcasing the world’s latest mobile devices, apps and transmission technology — that the network in the convention center was so taxed attendees were unable to make calls or check email for hours at a time. Playing with any of the cool new apps was out of the question. Heck, calling someone to tell them you’d be late to a meeting was a roll of the dice.
Indeed, the only reliable means of communication was going old school with it on the 160-character Dino-Net.
The paucity of bandwidth at the mobile industry’s own show underscores the urgency of the looming capacity crunch. I went to MWC, you may recall, in search of answers to a problem that, left unchecked, threatens to spoil the seemingly boundless explosion in mobile.
Read about what I learned HERE.
