New Verizon LTE tech could ruin Wi-Fi, says Google, Microsoft and others

A battle between some of the biggest tech companies in the U.S. is being waged in the airwaves.

Google, Microsoft, Comcast and other large tech companies are lobbying the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) against a new LTE technology Verizon is developing, claiming it will have an adverse effect on Wi-Fi, Bloomberg Buisnessweek reports.

Verizon, like all U.S. cellular carriers, licenses specific bands of radio waves from the U.S. government to deliver data to your phone. There's also free, unlicensed radio waves that can be used to deliver data, though today's phones aren't equipped to receive data by these means. Verizon wants to change that by equipping phones with chips that can take advantage of what it's calling LTE in Licensed Spectrum (LTE-U). Read more...