Two recent articles underscore the continuing challenge the wireless industry faces with respect to having sufficient spectrum at its disposal.

An article in Forbes entitled We're Three Years Away From Spectrum Shortages points out that the FCC's forecasts of projected wireless demand back in 2010 (the year the national Broadband Plan was released) were right on target. It also points to a newly released study finding that 350 MHz of spectrum is needed by 2019 to fill unabated consumer demand.

And in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece authored by former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, it was noted that mobile data traffic in the U.S. will grow sevenfold between 2014 and 2019, according to a study by CTIA, the wireless industry association.

As is pointed out in the Wall Street Journal article, the sharing of radio frequencies represents an important part of the "spectrum solution." This is precisely where xG Technology's xMax can help. xMax is a comprehensive fixed and mobile broadband solution that can enable spectrum sharing among commercial broadband, military and other government systems.

xMax has the ability to sense and manage the spectrum environment that it operates in. Using its patented suite of interference mitigation technologies, xMax is able to 'see through' the spectrum clutter, mitigate any interference encountered, and allow optimal spectrum use.

xMax technology can greatly increase the usable capacity of both new and existing spectrum up to several-fold over current radio technologies. This has the effect of adding significant additional spectral capacity at no additional user cost and with no increase in spectrum management. Federal wireless planners would do well to include xMax spectrum sharing technology in their arsenal of tools to stave off shortages that might lead to service disruptions and dislocations.

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