Business Insider:
2010: The Year of 'Mobile Warming': The Inconvenient Truth about Telco Network Bandwidth and How It’s Failing You
Have you or anyone you know ever experienced a dropped call on the AT&T network in a major US city? If so, you may be a victim of mobile warming. Whether you’re a leftist liberal or a die-hard conservative, we all know Mobile Warming is happening now and will only get worse.
Mobile Warming is the biggest problem facing mobile providers and users in the next two years. Wireless networks are melting down. Thanks to the explosive growth of demand for mobile video and data traffic, top metro areas in the US are already full of frustrated users with constantly dropped calls, slow connections, long video buffer times and an inability to connect to mobile apps at peak times. And if you think it’s bad now….just wait. New applications like video calling and the addition of Adobe Flash on some high-end phones mean that networks will feel more strain than ever. A recent research report released by Cisco found that mobile video will represent 66 percent of all mobile data traffic by 2014, increasing 66-fold from 2009 to 2014. [Read the rest]
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