Entrepreneur Steve Perlman may have cut his teeth in the tech world with the invention of WebTV — which he sold to Microsoft for $425 million more than a decade ago — but now he’s venturing into the arcane realm of telecom. His new startup Artemis Networks has developed a cellular technology that claims to relieve the scarcity of mobile broadband signals, pumping enormous amounts of speed and capacity into the network in the process.

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Artemis’s technology is called a pCell, which purports to make the mobile network’s biggest problem — interference between signals — work in the network’s favor. While conventional cells are designed to avoid transmitting on each other’s turf, Artemis’s antennas deliberately throw their signals headlong into one another. According to Artemis, instead of creating white noise, which is what would happen in a regular network, that miasma of cross-interference generates tiny 1cm-sized “personal cells” that…