Step 2: The magnetic field
The transmitter coil creates the changing magnetic field that carries energy across the gap.
Ferrite shielding helps guide the magnetic flux and reduce unwanted field leakage. Some chargers also use magnets to align and hold the device.
Step 1: The transmitter
Inside the charger, an AC/DC adapter converts mains electricity into DC power.
An inverter then converts this into high-frequency AC, which drives the transmitter coil to generate an alternating magnetic field.
How does wireless charging actually work?
It’s more than placing your phone on a charging pad.
Wireless charging uses electromagnetic induction to transfer energy without a physical electrical connection.
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Stay tuned for our upcoming series, where we’ll break it down step by step.
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One sector down does not always mean the whole site is down.
In many mobile networks, a site has multiple sectors, so the remaining sectors can keep serving traffic while one sector has a fault.
Have you ever seen a site where only one sector was affected?
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From there, the traffic joins the network again-backhaul to a core router, a switch, or a cell site controller. To the mobile user, it just feels like the network is there, even though the path was wireless.
At Site B, a matching antenna catches the wave and sends it into a receive radio. That radio filters noise, locks onto the carrier, and turns the RF back into clean digital traffic.
In the air, the signal crosses open space as an electromagnetic wave. Because the path is line-of-sight, towers are placed high enough to clear buildings, trees, and terrain that would block the link.
The antenna doesn’t spray signal everywhere. It shapes a tight beam, like a flashlight in fog, so most of the power travels straight toward Site B instead of wasting energy in every direction.
At Site A, the base station hands traffic to a microwave radio.
That radio converts digital data into a high-frequency signal, then feeds it into a directional antenna built to focus energy in one narrow path.
How does a point-to-point microwave link move mobile traffic between two sites without a single cable?
It starts with one radio, one antenna, and a beam of RF energy aimed at a partner site miles away.
No fibre? No problem.
Mobile traffic can still move reliably using point-to-point microwave hops between sites.
Each hop extends the connection, keeping voice and data flowing across the backhaul path.
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Practical takeaway:
Use fibre where traffic is heavy and future growth is expected. Use microwave where deployment speed, geography, or cost make fibre impractical.
In practice, most operators use a hybrid backhaul strategy — choosing the right transport for each site.
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Cost is not just equipment.
Fibre often means trenching, permits, wayleaves, and long lead times.
Microwave shifts more of the investment toward radios, towers, spectrum, and planning — making it cheaper and faster in some locations, but not all.
Capacity is the first trade-off.
Fibre can scale from hundreds of Mbps to multi-Gbps and far beyond,depending on the transport technology.
Microwave has improved significantly, but spectrum,channel width link distance and rain fade still constrain practical capacity.
Microwave is often chosen when fibre is slow, costly, or impractical to build.
Think remote towers, difficult terrain, temporary coverage, or rapid rollout — where a microwave link can often be deployed in days rather than months.
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