Experts Say Mobile Broadband is at Breaking Point

Posted by Alex on October 30, 2009

According to the expert broadband analysts observing closely the mobile broadband sector of the United Kingdom, the mobile broadband networkswere already struggling due to the heaviness of the usage loads. It is also not good times ahead according to them as they predict that it was only going to get worse. 3B7159.preview

The prediction has been made by Informa Telecoms and Media, a telecommunications analysing agency, which has put forward its estimation that by the year 2012, a twenty-five fold growth would be experienced by the mobile data traffic. Worse is the news that the mobile broadband networks were already struggling under the pressure of the increasing mobile data in certain regions.

Dimitris Mavrakis, analyst at Informa commented that the mobile broadband internetnetworks operating in the advanced markets in the US and the United Kingdom were beginning to saturate. He added that in data-centric regions such as New York and London, they observed a good number of bottlenecks.

According to Informa, as the 3G mobile phones and mobile broadband were becoming increasingly popular in the recent times, it was not going to get better. The agency also acknowledges that it may not take long before the crowding of the mobile broadband network starts seriously impacting on consumer experience, as the consumer traffic was surging exponentially.

As the remedy, Mavrakis extends three measures to the mobile broadband providers facing the problem of growing data services demand.