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[article] Smartphones: Data Tsunami Coming

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  • 02-09-2009 4:01pm
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    oscarBravo
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    http://www.dailywireless.org/2009/08/28/smartphones-data-tsunami-coming/

    This caught my eye:
    Independent telecom analyst Chetan Sharma estimates that the typical wireless subscriber consumes 120 megabytes each month; typical iPhone owners use four times that.

    And it’s just getting worse. By 2010, global mobile data traffic is expected to exceed 200 terabytes per month, six times last year’s levels, according to Cisco Systems.

    “3G networks were not designed effectively for this kind of usage,” says John Donovan, AT&T’s chief technology officer, referring to the current generation of broadband wireless. “We fight the day-to-day guerrilla warfare as the customers move around.”


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    bk
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    What the AT&T fellow means is that they haven't built a network with sufficient density (many close by 3G towers) and with sufficient backhaul and that they have oversold their products and lied about what they can do.


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    bealtine
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    bk wrote: »
    What the AT&T fellow means is that they haven't built a network with sufficient density (many close by 3G towers) and with sufficient backhaul and that they have oversold their products and lied about what they can do.

    What a mobile company that lies? It wouldn't happen here...


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    helimachoptor
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    Things are going to hit a rough patch when HSDPA moves to higher speeds, the networks will sell phones/USB dongles as 14.4/21mbps and of course won't have the infrastructure to firstly pick up all these devices, secondly pick up all these devices and give them the speed that they have advertised at. Then they'll roll out the nugget "up to 14.4mbps etc etc"

    The only light on the horizon I see is the vodafone deal with E-net, potentiallyif Vodafone pop some more cells around the regions it could help with access there.


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    cgarvey
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    bk wrote: »
    What the AT&T fellow means is that they haven't built a network with sufficient density (many close by 3G towers) and with sufficient backhaul and that they have oversold their products and lied about what they can do.

    Well, he's right in what he said. Also, there was an article linked of Slashdot a few months back (and I'm damned if I can find it now), demonstrating that even with insane cell density, there were still problems with indoor coverage. All the will in the world won't fix some simple basics of physics. Yes, AT&T are in for some justified criticism, but let's keep the bowl of realism nearby.


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