Is your cellphone dropping calls, internet getting slower? This may be due to a problem known as Spectrum Crunch, as more and more people get on the smart phone band wagon it reduces the amount of airwaves available and it have reached critical mass. The wireless spectrum, the infrastructure over which all wireless transmissions travel is a finite resource, well we might be quickly approaching that wall. For the average cellphone user this may get very expensive. As smart phone technology has gotten cheaper and cheaper it has allowed more and more people get access to wireless data, now this may cause a massive slow down of wireless devices as we are forced to share a finite amount of airwaves with more and more people. The U.S. still has a slight surplus, however, with current growth rates it could reach deficit levels by the beginning of next year according to the FCC. Some fixes may be available like satellite providers actually selling their allotments to cellphone companies but this again will not be cheap for cellphone users.
