Stuart Corner
Tuesday, 09 February 2010 13:22
Opinion and Analysis
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According to a study of mobile broadband networks YouTube accounts for 10 percent of global mobile bandwidth and peer-to-peer traffic is "the single largest factor leading to cell congestion which accounts for 34 percent of bandwidth utilisation in the top five percent of cells."
Within the last 24 hours there's been a whole series of announcements pointing to radical change in the mobile communications industry as service providers struggle to cope with surging demand for mobile broadband services.
Network equipment vendor, ADC, issued a press release saying that: "traditional methods to provide mobile coverage cannot scale to offer mobile operators the coverage, capacity and return on invested capital necessary to deliver 4G services."
The real aim of the release was to promote ADC's line of 'micro-cellular' infrastructure products that will be on show at the GSM World Congress in Barcelona later this month.
According to ADC "4G service is different because the modulation efficiency varies widely depending on signal strength, so a user less than a kilometre from the nearest base station may well get the multi-megabit data service that's advertised, but those farther away won't see better service than they have today."
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