Category Archives: Spectrum

Network offloading vital, but is Wi-Fi up to the task?

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Posted on January 20, 2011 by admin

By Malek Shahid By 2013, global mobile data traffic will exceed two terabytes a month[1]. Video streaming, social media applications and smartphone signaling are the chief culprits. This data tsunami will swamp mobile network architectures, and operators face the challenge of finding the right way to offload it. An ABI Research study, Mobile Network Offloading, forecasts that mobile data offloading …

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Mobile operators: victims of their own success?

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Posted on March 24, 2010 by admin

By Malek Shahid Spectrum is an expensive commodity. There’s only a limited amount of bandwidth available at a certain frequency, and only a small number of frequencies that are ever available to service providers. Aside from subscribers, spectrum is arguably a service provider’s most valuable asset. We may look back a decade and smile at the notion that there’d be …

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