Subscriber demand for data is driving the mobile ecosystem to push for more wireless spectrum.

The UMTS Forum is urgently requesting that additional spectrum be identified and allocated to support projected growth in mobile data. Traffic is expected to increase by a factor of 33 from 2010 to 2020.

Following the break-up of its planned merger with T-Mobile USA, AT&T is reminding the Federal Communications Commission that the lack of spectrum is limiting growth – resulting in data caps, throttling and price hikes.

Clearly, keeping network capacity ahead of subscriber demand is a far-reaching imperative for the mobile industry. The practical solution to spectral scarcity is Smart Capacity^TM.

-Anna Yong
 

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Bytemobile’s T3100 Adaptive Traffic Manager has been shortlisted as one of six finalists in the Best Infrastructure Technology category for the 2012 GSMA Global Mobile Awards. The other finalists in this category include Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson/Telstra, Huawei. Nokia Siemens Networks, and Vantage Communications. The award winners will be announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 28. Bytemobile products have previously been shortlisted as finalists for Global Mobile Awards in 2009 (WebGate^TM Service) and 2007 (Unison^TM Platform).

This recognition – by the world’s leading mobile industry association at the industry’s largest trade show – reflects the market momentum initiated with the public launch of the T3100 on August 30, 2011.

Bytemobile plans to exhibit and host a hospitality suite at Mobile World Congress, February 27-March 1. The T3100 will be on display in our exhibit.

-Anna Yong

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According to the GSMA Wireless Intelligence database, China had 973.7 million mobile connections at the end of 2011 – nearly 80% of them on 3G networks. As Bytemobile noted in its Mobile Analytics Report (October 2010), faster networks means more video to be optimized and more traffic to manage. See our announcement of Bytemobile China Communications Services Co. Ltd.

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Writes Sebastian Anthony in ExtremeTech: "According to new research from HTTP Archive, which regularly scans the internet's most popular destinations, the average size of a single web page is now 965 kilobytes, up more than 30% from last year's average of 702KB.”

This means that mobile subscribers accessing internet content are adding 30% more network load just by doing what they normally do. Add to that the fact that subscribers are using mobile data more than ever. To name one of many examples, Rovio Mobile reported 6.5 million Christmas Day downloads of Angry Birds games in 2011 – more than 3x the number of downloads on the 2010 holiday.

All of this reinforces the inevitable conclusion that mobile data subscribers are demanding more and more of operators’ networks, making capacity concerns top of mind. Bytemobile Smart Capacity^TM solutions provide operators with an efficient, cost-effective way to improve the utilization of existing network capacity.

-Anna Yong

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