The future of the internet is becoming increasingly more mobile. Cars, remote patient monitoring devices, and smart houses all run on some form of wireless internet. Even most consumer-facing artificial intelligence applications are run through mobile apps, such as Perplexity AI and OpenAI.
With more online applications going mobile, more data will need to travel over our wireless networks. We are already seeing AI's impact on 5G networks. The ubiquity of AI applications, such as AI-powered assistants and augmented reality platforms, "will soon drive mobile data traffic beyond the capacity of current 5G networks," according to a report by Mobile Experts. We may start seeing capacity issues as soon as 2027, unless wireless broadband infrastructure gets a much-needed upgrade.
Wireless broadband is fueled by radio spectrum—the invisible real estate that makes your device mobile—and we don't have any more fuel to give.
