Rice University engineering researchers have made a breakthrough that could allow wireless phone companies to boost throughput on their networks by as much as 70 percent without adding a single cell tower. Rice's new "full-duplex" technology allows wireless devices like cell phones and electronic tablets to both "talk" and "listen" to wireless cell towers on the same frequency -- something that requires two separate frequencies today.
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