Mobile Broadband jumps nearly 100% in 12 months
According to a burst or new study results this week mobile broadband is only expecting to continue to grow at an exponential rate.
Infroma reported that by the end of March 2009 broadband subscribers surpassed the 225 million mark which is a yearly growth rate of about 93%.
Allot Communications also issued a report that used data from operators globally with a user base of over 150 million subscribers that said mobile networks grew about 30% just in between the first quarter and second quarter of 2009.
Cementing the explosion of mobile broadband was a third report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project survey which found about 56% of adult Americans have been online in a wireless format either from an MP3 player, mobile device, Wi-fi laptop, or a game console.
Not surprisingly, a laptop was the most popular way that people choose to utilize Wi-Fi services with 39% of those who answered yes pointing to its use.
At first glance this may seem like good news for mobile broadband operators, but with such extreme growth comes congestion and if the current growth rate continues operators will not be ableto keep up with the growth and continue to turn revenues.
