Carriers, critics and cable slowly edging toward consensus on LTE-U

The first draft of the Wi-Fi Alliance’s specification for LTE-U coexistence testing was issued last week, but people close to the process say that there’s still plenty of work ahead.
LTE-U technology, which uses the same unlicensed frequency as Wi-Fi to provide additional bandwidth to mobile carriers, is already in limited testing by Verizon. Carriers are enthused about LTE-U’s potential to ease the load on their networks, but critics – among them Google, Comcast, and Mi