Mobile Internet traffic jam predicted
MOBILE ANALYST shop Informa has warned that mobile Internet operators need to act now to prevent major traffic jams on their networks in the future.
According to the BBC, the number of people accessing the net on mobile phones could soon outstrip the capacity of networks.
Dimitris Mavrakis, mobile network analyst at Informa warned that mobile data traffic volume looks set to rise 25-fold by 2012. While this could earn operators a bundle they will need to take action to avoid imminent network overloads.
Part of the problem is that telcos current revenues from data are increasing much slower than traffic. They have all adopted flat-rate pricing and this means that as traffic increases they are not making enough money to upgrade their networks, Mavrakis said.
Hardware to build next-generation mobile networks that can handle higher data rates will not be widely available until late 2010 and this is also a factor, he indicated.
John Spindler, vice president of product management at network optimisation firm ADC, told the Beeb that operators are struggling to cope with sudden spikes in mobile data use as the heavy users were focused in some areas and not in others.
Still no one in the UK will mind. We are used to traffic jams and we still do not take the train. µ
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