“Management of the data traffic has become a priority for the telecoms industry as mobile internet usage is booming but data revenues for the phone companies grow slowly at best,” Virki and Leske report.
“Research firm Informa forecasts a 50 percent rise in mobile data traffic in 2010 on the back of the increasing popularity of devices such as the Apple iPhone and netbooks, but only a 13 percent rise in data revenues,” Virki and Leske report.
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Once again
http://www.exaltcom.com/Backhaul-Alternatives.aspx
When the congestion is at the backhaul point, ideas like this will eventually help. I hope.
Here’s hoping for more dumb pipe companies that recognize that their number one job is creating an ever-expanding pipe, not contracts, or music, or video, or ringtones.
The mobile carriers are “trying to find ways of profitably handling an explosion in mobile data traffic”?
In other words, they want to deal with the explosion without spending any money, as usual!
Here’s the big secret: Build out your networks, numb-nuts!
Amazing that the iPhone from Apple has pretty much caused this. And even more amazing that carriers were not ready for it.
“Informa forecasts a 50 percent rise in mobile data traffic in 2010 on the back of the increasing popularity of devices such as the Apple iPhone and netbooks.”
Note to editor: delete “netbooks,” add iPad.
I’m not sure there’s any way the existing network people have the capacity to improve their lot.
I can’t believe I did this but, y’know, I do some foolish things at times. I walked into an AT&T;store to ask for some technical help on one of AT&T;’s products. Even the customers who happened to be nearby me there in that store guffawed as they realized the extent of my gamble. When the store staff person couldn’t deal with my question, she checked with her manager and they both then recommended I go see the people at Target to find my answer.
The networks serve only to ration their monopoly-like resources. Until technology is developed that allows networks to be surpassed in the provision of these resources, there won’t be much of an improvement in online usage. And when that surpassing becomes obvious, the existing networks will fight the change with every lobbyist they can recruit. The new technology will come about only when its consumption becomes publicly demonstrable. That’s when the existing networks will likely do a Motorola.
We need a revolution.
Don’t cry for me, tablet users!