AFTER BROADBAND PLAN, FCC, CTIA START FILLING IN SPECTRUM NEEDS

摘要

The FCC is following up on the National Broadband Plan by starting to pin down carriers?spectrum needs. 揇ata traffic on AT&T's mobile network, driven in part by iPhone usage, is up 5,000 percent over the past 3 years, a compound annual growth rate of 268 percent," the plan says. "Verizon Wireless says it, too, has recently experienced substantial data growth in its network. According to Cisco, North American wireless networks carried approximately 17 petabytes per month in 2009, an amount of data equivalent to 1,700 Libraries of Congress. By 2014, Cisco projects wireless networks in North America will carry some 740 petabytes per month, a greater than 40-fold increase."