Data Phase Change: Mobile Outpaces Voice Traffic
March 25, 2010
Short honk: “Mobile Data Overtakes Voice Traffic” documents what I had heard at a conference on March 22, 2010. The key point for me was the subtitle: “Facebook is more popular than talking.” The actual factoids are useful for supporting an argument with those who think that computing is a tethered affair. Example:
he data, which was collected during December 2009, showed that data traffic has ballooned by 280 per cent within the past two years. The tipping point for data traffic was 140,000 Terabytes or, if you prefer the marketeers, conversion, 140 Petabytes per month. Although that figure sounds vast, doing some back of the envelope calculations it works out to around 8 bits per second, not exactly broadband speeds. We got that figure by using last year’s UN mobile subscription figures, which put the number at 4.1 billion mobile subscribers and coupled that to a nominal 30-day month.
So the trend is clear. Now what?
Stephen E Arnold, March 25, 2010
A free write up. I will report this to whomever I see when I am next in Washington. Maybe a Verizon employee? Maybe the cookie vendor in Union Station? Probably not a person with a wireless device.
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