by Pivot
Category: Mobility
Video Now 50% to 70% of All Mobile Network Traffic
Video traffic now represents half of all traffic on the networks, according to Bytemobile’s February 2012 Mobile Analytics Report. On certain networks, video traffic is up to 69 percent of total traffic. That is important…
Major U.S. Spectrum for LTE Authorized for Auction
U.S. wireless service providers (and potentially others) soon will have the chance to bid on new wireless spectrum in the 700 MHz frequency range, and expected to be used to support new Long Term Evolution…
Mobile Devices Add New “Anywhere” Content Consumption Screens
Mobile devices increasingly are content consumption devices. “As these device categories evolve and new ones come into being, consumers will continue to expect digital content to be available on all screens, at all times, in…
AT&T, Verizon Wireless to Sell LTE iPads?
AT&T and Verizon Wireless apparently are going to have the right to sell the Apple iPad in a version that supports fourth generation networks those firms operate, the Wall Street Journal reports. Verizon, AT&T to…
Mobile Data Traffic Will Grow 18 Times Next 5 Years
According to the latest Cisco Visual Networking Index, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 18-fold over the next five years, reaching 10.8 exabytes per month, an annual run rate of 130 exabytes, by 2016. The…
How Fast is Mobile Bandwidth Demand Growing?
Bandwidth planning has become a tricky business since data traffic completely displaced voice as the driver of consumption. Not only is demand more variable and uncertain, growth is more dynamic, by an order of magnitude…
Users Blame Service Providers for Poor Video Experience
About 74 percent of mobile users hold mobile service providers most responsible for their video content stalling, buffering or taking too long to start when streaming over their mobile network, a survey of mobile phone…
Google to Sell Branded In-Home Entertainment System
Google is developing a home entertainment system that streams music wirelessly throughout the home and would be marketed under the company’s own brand, according to the Wall Street Journal. One obvious implication is that Google…
Mobile Devices Now are Content Consumption, Not Communication Devices
In 2011, the majority of all mobile phone owners consumed mobile media on their smart phones and tablet devices, marking an important milestone in the evolution of mobile from primarily a communication device to a…
Do Devices Rule?
If casual observation is an accurate indicator, consumers make their mobile purchasing decisions based solely on devices available from any particular mobile service provider. This raises the question of whether other service bundle components matter…
Value and Power Shifting to App Providers, Execs Believe
Rapidly evolving mobile Web technologies have introduced a period of hypercompetition in the mobile sector, analysts at Deloitte say. As a result, new entrants are chipping away at incumbent advantages and profits. The Deloitte study…
Texting is Displacing Talking
The latest data from CTIA: The Wireless Association provides more evidence that texting is displacing talking among U.S. consumers. Since about June 2008 some 60 million additional users have become mobile subscribers. Since that time,…