Dish Network subsidiary American H Block Wireless will lease certain H Block mobile spectrum in San Francisco to Artemis Networks for up to two years for the world’s first deployment of pCell wireless technology.
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Artemis Networks will deploy the first pCell service that can deliver mobile data to every mobile device concurrently, regardless of how many users are sharing the same spectrum, in San Francisco — subject to FCC approval.
Artemis Networks claims that the patented pCell wireless technology can offer better spectrum capacity than conventional LTE because pCell exploits interference, combining interfering radio waves to create an unshared personal cell for each LTE device, providing the full wireless capacity to each user at once.
To use the Artemis pCell service in the DISH-leased spectrum band, users need to insert an Artemis SIM card into an LTE device.
Artemis said the Artemis I Hub for venue and indoor trials provides pCell service via 32 distributed antennas, delivering up to 1.5 Gbps in shared spectrum to off-the-shelf LTE devices, with frequency agility from 600 MHz to 6 GHz.
