Stuart Taylor, of Cisco Systems:

Cisco projects that global mobile data traffic will double every year, increasing 66 fold between 2008 and 2013. This phenomenal growth is not without challenges:

• Revenues are not increasing anywhere near the speed of traffic growth. In fact, mobile data revenue is growing at 10 percent to 20 percent per year compared to annual traffic growth of 100 to 200 percent. How can mobile operators monetize this growth?
• Delivering a good customer experience on an increasingly congested network is going to be a challenge. A single user accessing BitTorrent, or some other bandwidth-intensive application, threatens to destroy the experience for all users.

Looks like an excellent problem to solve: a mismatch between the business model and technology. It could provide an opening for Wi-Max. A tiny one, though.

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