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by KaiserPro 4489 days ago
Sorry, its just beamforming. Its not new, its just marketing.

its not all that different from having an 802.11n MIMO hotspot in your house.

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Infact its not all that different from femto cell base stations. You'll still need a license to transmit on that frequency, and you still need a reliable backhaul to dump the data on.
It's different from the MIMO employed in Wifi or "normal" LTE. They do not create a cell per user, neither does a femto cell base station (it only creates a small cell, not a personal cell).
The other, other thing is that inverse square law still applies. along with propagation loss, and the like.

wireless power is literally a waste.