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If we're going to have an Internet full of things so that we can friend our Coke machines and our refrigerators on Facebook, wireless carriers say there needs to be more wireless spectrum available to LTE and fourth-generation technologies than there currently is. Nonsense, said a group of Citi investment analysts last month, who provided explicit, mathematically detailed analysis that appeared to prove that, even by 2015, fully deployed LTE would only consume 52% of the available space.

That depends on which numbers you choose to believe, according to a report released this morning by independent telecommunications researcher Peter Rysavy (PDF available here). If you've heard the name before, Rysavy was the fellow who told the Mobile World Congress last year that the first impact of spectrum shortage would hit in 2013, in analysis sponsored by Research In Motion.