mobile broadband

Mobile Operators Should Start Investing in mobile broadband Infrastructure

Events like the football World Cup have brought a number of warnings that network managers should prepare their networks for a potential bandwidth surge. In situations of this kind, people tend to use the Internet excessively.

The same can happen to mobile networks. Most of us would opt to use fixed-line networks, but can you be sure mobile networks, based on GSM technology, cope with the demand they face from mobile broadband and an increased use of smartphones?

Unfortunately, the GSM cannot cope with this. Voice networks cannot suddenly increase their capacity three times. There may be an initial boost but later a crash will occur. To avoid this, network providers need to implement a radical change.

Since it is expected that mobile data traffic will increase twenty-five fold by 2012, mobile operators are already preparing to handle data traffic jams.

We all remember the month of December when O2 faced some embarrassing failures in their network in London. The cause of the crash was the increasing use of smartphones.

O2 will have to spend millions of pounds for their mobile broadband so that it meets the demands of the day and calm down angry O2 users who may want to protest.