Mobile Broadband Traffic Went Spiralling in the Year 2011
It has been stated that with more and more users utilizing media tablets, smartphones and dongles, the Transfer of mobile data has shot up in the year 2011.
As per Cisco the networking stalwarts, the utilization of mobile broadband had increase more than two fold in the course of the previous year to get to 597 Pentabytes or 0.5 Exabytes a month
This figure showed an increase of 237 Pb a month from that of the year 2010. This just goes to prove that there was a growing attraction for the mobile broadband facilities.
As per Cisco, this trend would go on with the utilization of mobile data going up to an exceptional 10.8 Exabytes in the next five years.
The Vice-President of Product and Solutions Marketing at Cisco, Mr. Suraj Shetty, stated that in a matter of the five year period 60 percent of the people utilizing mobiles would be members of the ‘Gigabyte Club’, which implies that they would be producing over 1Gb of data every month in comparison to the 0.5 percent of the users in the year 2011.
He also added that this remarkable development in mobile traffic would be motivated by more powerful gadgets as well as making by use of quicker network systems like the 4G and Wi-Fi to gain access to more applications.
The increase in mobile data usage was intensifying the need for the country to move ahead with its 4G spectrum sales that the telecom regulatory authority Ofcom has slated for the end of the year 2012.
After the spectrum in the 2.6 GHz and the 800MHz had been assigned the broadband service providers would be in a position to launch long standing mobile broadband services.
