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June 2014

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Wi-Fi Offload Will Represent 52% of Mobile Internet Traffic in 2018

June 15, 2014

Mobile Internet access traffic offloaded from mobile networks to Wi-Fi represented 45 percent of total mobile Internet traffic in 2013, and will grow to 52 percent of total mobile Internet access traffic by 2018, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index.

Likewise, the amount of traffic offloaded from smartphones will be 51 percent by 2018, and the amount of traffic offloaded from tablets will be 69 percent by 2018.  That is a good indicator of how foundational and strategic unlicensed spectrum and fixed network Internet access has become for mobile service providers and their customers, even when the fixed network access is not owned by the mobile service provider.

That, in turn, illustrates a fundamental principle of modern computing and communications, namely that applications and access are fundamentally separated.

Worldwide Carrier Network Upgrades to Cost $354 Billion this Year

June 1, 2014

Ever since the rise of LTE, mobile expenditures have been on the rise, with several government and private sector initiatives throwing whatever money it can at projects to expand networks. Infonetics Research, a research firm dedicated to gathering data on the telecommunications market, has released a report called “Service Provider Capex, Revenue, and Capex by Equipment Type”. In its detailed analysis of the mobile market, the firm has concluded that capital expenditures by telecom companies around the world will reach $354 billion this year.

Stéphane Téral, principal analyst, for mobile infrastructure and economics at Infonetics Research, spoke publicly about the report, saying, “As the fourth year of this new investment cycle continues, we're forecasting worldwide telecom capex to rise 4 percent and hit $354 billion by the end of 2014, with the bulk of the investment coming from China's massive LTE rollouts led by China Mobile and China Telecom, and from Deutsche Telekom's and Vodafone's major network upgrades across Europe.”