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US Mobile Data Traffic Usage Exceeds Voice
MojoKid writes "A report just released states that total mobile data traffic topped mobile voice traffic in the United States last year, for the first time. In fact, globally, data traffic topped voice traffic on a monthly basis last year, and the total traffic across the world exceeded an exabyte for the first time in 2009. Apparently, North America and Western Europe's mobile data markets are growing so rapidly they each should exceed an exabyte sometime in 2010. Interestingly, the nations with the largest data service revenues were: the US, Japan, China, the UK, Italy, Germany, France, Australia, Spain and Korea, respectively."
Your cell bill is going to keep going up, whilst QoS declines...
In terms of data size, a 10-minute voice-only phone conversation is absolutely miniscule compared to even a single page load of even a mobile-friendly web site. So it's not surprising at all that data usage would exceed voice usage. The data usage is typically much more intensive than voice.
the nations with the largest data service revenues were: the US, Japan, China, the UK, Italy, Germany, France, Australia, Spain and Korea, respectively.
What would be more intertesting would be to compare the level of "data sevice revenues" to the amount of data actually transferred. Just telling you which nations have the largest revenues doesn't tell you whether they're very active or just very expensive.
When I use voice-over-IP on my Interweb-enabled tubified G4 phone of course the voice traffic goes down!
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I want the cell companies to drop this absurd notion of selling minutes, and provide high quality data service only - and a "DNS"-like service and effective filtering so people can find me and the programs (including VIOP) that I choose to run on my mobile device.
We're *almost* there, but not yet. Accessing your mobile device via a phone number still works much, much better than just data plans, and SIP sorcery (to get a number for voip) isn't simple at all.
How much if that data traffic is actually VoIP? I have a SIP client on my iPhone 3GS that gets more use than my cell many days.
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I don't find this all that interesting, since this pretty much a list of the world's largest economies in descending order. I'd be much more interested in per subscriber data.
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When LTE rolls out on At&t, Verizon, T-Mobile, etc, I pray that they realize they just need to get out of the way and let me do what I want on an open phone. Maybe not torrents(seems to be the logical exception due to insane bandwidth use of torrents), but VoIP and video streaming, etc.
A typical English voice conversation isn't 100% talking. There's approximately 20% of the total, give or take a few percent depending on the individuals, that's dead time. If using a good cell phone, this is effecitvely eliminated, and no transmission takes place.
Take 80% of your values to get a more realistic view of the situation.
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Take Nobody's Word For It.
Our mobile data demands last year were 1 Exabyte - Which is roughly the equivalent of 1/5 the words ever spoken by humans.
No wonder everyone feels crazy. Nothing in evolution prepared us for this much information about anything/everything/everybody all the time. I mean, it's great, it's fantastic, we now essentially carry a device that not only can communicate on several different levels with nearly anyone on the planet anywhere anytime, but it's also a repository of most human knowledge and on their way of becoming capable of nearly everything (Voice, then text, then cameras, mp3, web, navigation, apps then?). True, the data and communication links aren't in your pocket, and it's far from complete. But that's a lot of information. And it's all nearly instantaneous. Now we get frustrated not only if we can't get the information, but if we just can't get it fast enough. 5 seconds of "connecting..." is enough to get us mad sometimes. Never mind that 15-20 years ago it would have involved a trip to a library or several libraries, phone calls, or maybe taking a trip and talking to locals, and take days, hours, or months to find the info we're looking for, half a minute waiting can get us angry, we need to hear what kind of music they play at specific coffeehouses in Prague right now, dammit, we're trying to plan a trip here.
ADD isn't a disorder in this context, it's a result. It gets hard to concentrate for a while nearly everything can be looked up in seconds, nearly every desire that starts "I want to see...", "I want to hear...", "I want to tell..." or "I want to know..." can be instantly fulfilled. If it's not instantly gratified, it's quickly forgotten, and another desire takes it's place, even if it's just been seconds.
All opinion, and I'm not arguing that ADD isn't a disease, just that our technological environment has a lot to do with it.
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The interesting thing about LTE is that its entirely packet-switched. Voice will essentially be VOIP over the packet-switched network. Although operators will continue running their legacy circuit-switched networks for several more years (if only because they've already sunk billions into it), once voice transitions entirely over to digital transmission Verizon and co. will have to come up with another pricing scheme to extract higher ARPU from their customers.
A picture is worth a thousand words. I wonder how much a video costs...
how big part of all those GDP numbers out there is composed out of imaginary money
Banks use fractional reserve lending to create money. All fiat money is imaginary.
I live in a rural area and LOVE my home. I'm not selling it and moving for better bandwidth. Having said that my only options are ~28k dialup on the rotting landlines, satellite or Verizon Wireless VZAccess mobile. I download at _least_ four or five gig a month on my mobile card and it never leaves my living room computer.
Until rural USA has a better option "mobile" may not be the proper word for these connections.
My data traffic ( dedicated to direct communication between humans, not just idle data use like downloads or forum posts ) exceeded 'voice' communication decades ago.
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OK, I am not any sort of audio expert or anything, but this range of 1.5 to 2.0 Kbps seems a scosh low. If not, why (and there is my question) is that the lowest you see for audio (talk) netstreams (like at shoutcast) nowadays is 16kbps with rarely an 8 out there. And tons of them run at 24 kbps (and I am paying attention to b or B, and man I wish this "industry" would pick one and stick to it) and above. Why aren't we seeing them run much lower, so they can push more streams? What's the difference, where's the catch?
MP3 or whatnot. Like I said, not an audio expert, but dang if I can ever remember listening to any stream at less than 8kbps. I am just wondering where these ultra low rate but high quality streams are (outside of the phone calls). Seems like a great way to save on hosting and streaming costs for internet talk radio stuff.
I never noticed that before! At least now it makes *some* sense to me.
I think it's imperative that net neutrality apply to the cell carriers, too.
And we're quite a long way from that.
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Jewelry's non-imaginary use value is that it looks shiny. Or are you also going to write off the entire cosmetics industry, the entire designer clothing industry, and every other industry related to aesthetics, as imaginary?
the nations with the largest data service revenues were: the US, Japan, China, the UK, Italy, Germany, France, Australia, Spain and Korea, respectively."
I'm not surprised. Optus et al will charge you 55c / KB if you exceed your allotted data, and many plans don't include any. The more economical options are 300 MB for $10 (Virgin) or 1 GB for $20 (ThinkMobile), but they're rather difficult to find, so it's no surprise that they're collecting so much revenue from this.
On the plus side, at least we're allowed to tether.
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