Opportunity

Over the past three years, the Telecommunications Industry has evolved due to the proliferation of demand in the mobile broadband market. It caught virtually every U.S. telecommunications company by surprise with its exponential growth to over $30 billion in U.S. annual sales. Estimates place this figure to exceed $70 billion by the year 2015. While this is exciting industry news, it also creates a new set of challenges. Mobile broadband is delivered wirelessly over the highways of the sky known as spectrum. The FCC has warned for several years that the U.S. is facing a spectrum crisis, meaning that the demand has outstripped the supply of spectrum and it is now becoming a serious concern for the major carriers and their customers. This is evident by the rise in dropped calls on most cell phones.

To temporarily resolve this issue, major carriers have begun to offload much of their data communication to existing Wi-Fi networks supported primarily by hotspots. This strategy has become so aggressive that the carriers are currently developing their own hotspots. This is not a viable long-term solution however; hotspots represent Local Area Network (LAN) architecture and can only provide a limited coverage (an estimated 5%) for offloading data traffic. CCI's Wytec Wide Area Network (WAN) architecture provides expanded coverage throughout a total community and is capable of accepting a much greater offloading service (an estimated 35%) from the major carriers. This would represent more than $10 billion a year in offloading services.