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A new paper by Michael Kleeman of the University of...

A new paper by Michael Kleeman of the University of California San Diego’s Global Information Industry Center makes the case for why the wireless industry needs more spectrum for wireless broadband (http://xrl.us/bmhrmc). Kleeman concludes that U.S. mobile data traffic grew…

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at a 120 percent annual rate over the previous two years and by 2014 voice is likely to represent only 2 percent of total wireless traffic. “The average amount of traffic per smartphone in 2010 was 79 MB per month, up from 35 MB per month in 2009,” the paper said. Today “10 percent of mobile users are watching video content on their devices and consuming 38 percent of data volume on mobile networks. By the end of 2011, video content will jump to 60 percent of network data volume.”