Mobile Internet, mobile networks multiplied by 10 all the Internet traffic of the year 2000
Are people interested in having Internet on their mobile? It looks like it is. And more than you could think. Only 5 years ago it was surprising to think that there were so many people who did not look down on paying extra money for voice consumption to be able to navigate from the phone. And a decade before now, it was simply unthinkable. But the data is there, and only data traffic on mobile networks already supposes a much higher volume of information than that generated by the entire Internet at the beginning of the millennium, that is, in the year 2000.
According to the American newspaper Los Angeles Times, based on data from the Cisco company, the traffic produced by Internet networks from mobile phones (and from USB modems) triples the world consumption that could be observed ten years ago. Although to justify these data, it is enough to consider some very specific and basic points.
To begin with, the data packages that are handled today are much more voluminous than those of the year 2000. In 2010 there were YouTube, Spotify, web pages in Flash format, video calls and many other services that in 2000 could not have been sustained on that infrastructure communication. And this without considering the large number of users who in the last ten years have joined the group of users who, very actively, participate every day in the life of the Internet.
And since we have mentioned the infrastructures, 2011 may be another year that marks a new juncture in this of mobile data traffic. The reason? The implementation of fourth generation communication systems, especially those known as LTE. These are high-speed mobile Internet networks.
Such is the case, that with a comparison of the global speed averages, the leap that the new technological step can represent is perfectly represented. And, according to Phone Arena, in 2010 the average download was set at about 200 kbps, while with the popularization of 4G networks it could skyrocket to 2.2 Mbps.
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