iNFORMATiON FARM: New Technology Could Replace Existing Cellular .

WIRED-Steve Perlman and his team at his startup, Rearden Companies, have invented acompletely new wireless technology, which he claims is simpler and cheaper than the entrails of modern cell phones.

Distributed-input-distributed-output (DIDO) technology, is an experimental radio communications system that could render cellular connections obsolete.

If a cellphone tower today broadcasts on channels that take a capability of 100 megabits of bandwidth per second, and 100 people relate to that cell tower and share bandwidth equally, each person`s connection will measure roughly one megabit per second. If 1,000 people connect, each will get 100k bits per second. With DIDO wireless signals, everyone within range would get the entirety of the channel.

"I acknowledge that sounds impossible," says Steve Perlman, "but literally if you make a cell that has 100 megabits per second worth of bandwidth in it and you get 100 people, each person gets 100 megabits a second. It`s very pretty amazing; you don`t interfere with anybody else."

DIDO`s feature list almost sounds too well to be true:

• Its "unlimited bandwidth" will eliminate dead zones and dropped calls, even in an urban jungle like New York City.
• The signals will run through solid objects that block cellular signals at the same frequency and power.
• It doesn`t need tall cell towers-just modest base stations the sizing of an internet router.
• Those access points will send a sign over a mile, while outdoor antennas can reach 30 miles or more in every direction-beyond the curve of the earth, brags Perlman. Theoretically, that act will prove to 250 miles once Rearden`s engineers have time to examine the tech at a longer range.

Everybody wins in this scenario-except perhaps current wireless providers, who, capitalizing on the "scarcity" of wireless bandwith, are all moving to tiered pricing models and only slowly rolling out 4G networks and depending on their data line to take up for their commoditized calling-plan business.

Perlman hopes DIDO, which he has already patented, will be available to consumers in a few days time. In the long run, he envisions DIDO completely eliminating wired data connections altogether, bringing about a complete conversion of calculation to the cloud.