72% Worldwide Growth in Mobile Data Bandwidth

Published on: 1st Jan 1970: 1:33am

Worldwide mobile data bandwidth usage increased by around 72% during the second half of 2009, reports Allot Communications. Over-the-top applications such as YouTube and Skype are driving this continued momentum in mobile broadband growth. APAC leads the growth with 86%; EMEA posted 70% growth and the Americas 59%.

The report also confirmed that HTTP streaming continues to be the fastest growing application with a 99% increase; its global mobile broadband share grew by 50% between Q2 and Q4, 2009.

Amongst applications, YouTube accounted for 10% of global bandwidth during Q3 and Q4, 2009, while Skype is the undisputed VoIP traffic market leader, accounting for 77% of the global VoIP bandwidth; VoIP and IM applications have increased significantly by almost 47%.

FaceBook experienced tremendous growth of 180% during the second half of 2009.

Peer to peer (P2P) is the single largest factor leading to cell congestion which accounts for 34% of bandwidth utilization in the top 5% of cells.

 

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