All of
these network and network infrastructure improvements, as well as likely
tiered pricing options in the future, will help get us to improved
mobile network service. The mobile internet marches on, and there will
be increasingly more and more usage of it, and technology will solve the
problem ultimately. Just don't expect the ride to be so smooth.
I've read a
few articles recently about domesticated pigs who get loose, and in the
wild very soon turn into wild boars, eating everything in their path. I
know they are a big problem in Texas and Arkansas and many other
states, and have started to become a problem in southern New Jersey. I
actually saw one of these beasts a long time ago in Hawaii when I was
hiking. The thing was huge.
Kind of
like some of us who are going hog wild on our mobile networks? We were
all nice and pink like a domesticated pig and used our mobile phones
according to the known statistical analysis, but now there are some
people using mobile networks all the time, such as streaming Pandora all
day onto their smartphones. And the mobile wild hog is born!
One
response I've seen about the mobile network issues has been more and
more PR from the operators in the form of articles and data coming out
about the small percent of users who "hog" the networks by taking full
advantage of their flat monthly data fee. These people, they say, are
the mobile feral hogs and these people are causing YOUR mobile network
access to be in jeopardy. And in some respects they are right. But in
other respects, some people are just utilizing their pay plans to the
fullest, right?
So what can
be done about this? When I wrote my blog about attending Mobile World
Congress a couple of weeks ago, two themes I mentioned were LTE and
Femtocells. LTE is all-IP network, and depending on uplink/downlink
measurements, is between 8 and 20 times faster than 3G HSPA. So it will
help to reign in these feral hogs living on the mobile broadband
network. And given the increased simplicity in its network architecture
(being more flat), LTE should be lower CAPEX/OPEX for the operators. So
it should all be good, right? Well, sure, but LTE is not exactly right
around the next corner.
Posted
03-18-2010 12:21 PM
by
Jim Machi
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