NTCA Releases ePaper: The Business Case for Mobile Backhaul
Posted by Jesse Ward on Monday, November 23, 2009 · 
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By 2010 the number of worldwide mobile broadband phone subscribers is expected to pass the 1 Billion mark, and data traffic will surpass voice traffic on mobile networks, this according to a May 2009 release by Infonetics Research. Cisco’s Mobile Forecast supports this projection, reporting that mobile data traffic will increase a thousand-fold over the seven years from 2005 through 2012.
Web surfing, VoIP and multimedia messaging service (MMS) are a few of the bandwidth-hungry services gaining popularity, while early adopters are embracing mobile TV and multimedia content streaming.
Consumer demand for mobile broadband is fueled by the operator’s desire for new revenue streams. As voice revenue levels off, mobile network operators (MNOs) are looking for new ways to boost average revenue per user. Further, mobile operators are beginning to deploy 4G technologies, which will enable new data-intensive applications.
It’s the perfect storm of sorts, many factors uniting to cause increased strain on the mobile network infrastructure, particularly the backhaul facilities. Rural telcos are ideally positioned to assist with this problem, create a revenue stream and, in the process, perhaps gain a piece of the wireless market.
Read more about The Business Case for Mobile Backhaul in NTCA’s November 2009 ePaper.
Learn more at the 2010 Wireless Symposium.
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