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Simon

Mobile Brodband Data Growth - in Finland

In case anyone doubted the staggeringly high growth of mobile data over the last year or so, I came across some fascinating (and very detailed) statistics on mobile data in Finland (thanks to Dean Bubley for pointing these out).

Stunningly:

-          Total data traffic in ‘07 was 13 x larger in volume than the previous year

-          92% of data traffic was from computers rather than phones

-          This share of traffic was from just 2.1% of devices

Full details at:

http://www.netlab.tkk.fi/~jakivi/publications/Kivi_Mobile_Data_Service_Usage_2005_2007.pdf

Simon

Horsham, 28th May 2008 (via HSDPA!)

Femto Forum Femtocell-Network Integration Initiative

We have just announced a new initiative to encourage convergence of the various methods for integrating femtocells with operator core networks. Operators have highlighted that this is one of the key issues for them in suppoprting femtocells economically as volumes rise beyond those present at initial launch. It also helps them support products from multiple femtocell vendors, giving customers choice regarding functions and form factors.

At the same time we announced several exciting new members (Cisco, Ericsson, Vodafone, BT etc.)

 

Plenty of press stories have picked up on this:

• Femto gets real (Techworld)
• Forum pushes interoperability (Light Reading)
• Forum ranks swell (Light Reading)
• Forum standards initiative (Telecoms.com)
• Forum pushes standards (Techworld)
• Cisco, Ericsson Swell Femto Forum Ranks (Light Reading)
• Femto Forum initiative pushes core interoperability (Telecommunications)
• NXP chips in for femtocell integration efforts (EE Times)
• Calls grow for femtocell standardisation (vnu.net)
• Femto Forum looks to standardize femtocell architecture (Network World)

Simon

West Sussex

1st Feburary 2008