BLOGGER: NAOMI WEISER It’s not just athletes who will be under pressure at the Olympics – spare a thought for your service provider. There’s enough capacity demand on their networks for video content right now as it is – for example, YouTube now exceeds 200 million views a day on mobile – without adding even [...]
BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK While the focus on Verizon is clearly centered on its upcoming iPhone 4 launch, its recent decision to throttle the throughput speed of its top five percent data users also succeeded in raising some eyebrows. Commentators almost unanimously ascribed this move to Verizon’s determination to ensure that its network would not suffer [...]
BLOGGER: DAVID CHAMBERS According to Chetan Sharma, a leading analyst specialising on the wireless-data industry, U.S. consumers will go through an average of some 325 MB a month by the end of 2010, up 112 percent from 2009. Total U.S. wireless-data traffic will exceed 1 Exabyte this year and is forecast to continue growing rapidly. [...]
BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK As the New York Times pointed out this week, “every day, about a million new devices — computers, mobile phones, televisions and other things — are hooked up to the Internet…Most of this growth is occurring in developing countries, where the Web is dominant and applications stores and the like have made [...]
Blog article by: Mirit Ashkenazi By 2017, there will be a predicted seven trillion networked devices. To support this connected world, where bandwidth-hungry devices and applications are connected anytime and anywhere, service providers will have no choice but to upgrade their networks to overcome the looming capacity crunch. No-one is feeling this pressure more than [...]
By: Hadas Haran When you think about Costa Rica, you might imagine lush rain forests, volcanoes, great diving and beautiful sandy beaches… Chances are that it doesn’t immediately spring to mind as the most dynamic communications market. That’s mainly due to the fact that, up until very recently, Costa Rica’s 5 million citizens were served by [...]
By Hadas Haran A few months ago, I was thinking of getting a new car and I’d always rather liked the MINI. A subsequent visit to the MINI website revealed some rather impressive facts: for example, the MINI’s Oxford factory has a highly automated production process that manufactures over 3,500 cars per week. Each car [...]
By Phil Bull I came across an amazing statistic in the paper recently – the article stated that by 2013, (that’s just three years away), global consumer internet data traffic would exceed 32,000 exabytes per month. At the time, I didn’t actually know what an exabyte was, but it sounded impressive. And as it turns [...]
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