
The pioneering technology could also create a seamless wireless network and eliminate internet ‘black spots’
The ‘lightRadio cube’ is the size of a Rubik’s cube.. These tiny devices could be attached to lampposts, buildings or telephone poles as single cubes or in clusters, connected to the mobile phone network with optical fibres
Rather than connecting all phones within a mile or two to the same mast, mobile phone companies could instead divide traffic between several smaller cells.
This would allow for a far greater capacity for calls and data – crucial at a time when smartphone users are saturating the network with data requests.
AT&T has already started creating a network of outdoor Wi-Fi hotspots in New York to cope with the number of iPhone users who are using the mobile network to access the internet.