Deloitte predicts the end of unlimited Internet consumption
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 9:07 am
Nearly 100 million Internet users worldwide may have to "control" their broadband connection in 2012 due to data restrictions by operators that will also extend to fixed-line services, according to forecasts announced on Wednesday by Deloitte.
According to Deloitte's telecommunications partner Fernando Huerta, while mobile users have become accustomed to monthly bandwidth limits, most fixed connections have been unlimited to date.
Huerta explained that the same reason that caused the end of unlimited consumption plans for mobile lines will affect the fixed line business. Thus, around 25% of data traffic is carried out by 1% of users. In addition, data demand is increasing by more than 30% year-on-year.
In this way, some of the mechanisms for limiting Internet that exist in the wireless business could be extended to the fixed business, such as speed control or billing each time a set limit is exceeded.
As for potential limits on a global bc data mexico scale, Deloitte predicts that the range of 100 to 250 GB (capacity) per month will become more common and that, in the case of 250 GB, less than 1% of all users would be affected.
Operators enter the world of apps
In addition, to address the decline in voice service revenues, which will worsen in the coming year and spread to other services, operators will enter the world of mobile applications as an additional way to monetize mobile broadband.
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To achieve this, telecommunications companies will either choose to combine their own developments with those of third parties, participation in other companies or the creation of startup companies and "innovation incubators."
Low-cost mobile terminals
The study also indicates that more than 500 million low-cost smartphones, costing less than 80 euros (100 dollars), could be in circulation in 2012, with nearly 300 million of these devices expected to be sold this year, which represents 20% of the annual production of mobile phones and a third of smartphones.
Huertas said that these devices will be aimed especially at users who do not yet have smartphones and at consumers in emerging markets.
According to Deloitte's telecommunications partner Fernando Huerta, while mobile users have become accustomed to monthly bandwidth limits, most fixed connections have been unlimited to date.
Huerta explained that the same reason that caused the end of unlimited consumption plans for mobile lines will affect the fixed line business. Thus, around 25% of data traffic is carried out by 1% of users. In addition, data demand is increasing by more than 30% year-on-year.
In this way, some of the mechanisms for limiting Internet that exist in the wireless business could be extended to the fixed business, such as speed control or billing each time a set limit is exceeded.
As for potential limits on a global bc data mexico scale, Deloitte predicts that the range of 100 to 250 GB (capacity) per month will become more common and that, in the case of 250 GB, less than 1% of all users would be affected.
Operators enter the world of apps
In addition, to address the decline in voice service revenues, which will worsen in the coming year and spread to other services, operators will enter the world of mobile applications as an additional way to monetize mobile broadband.
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To achieve this, telecommunications companies will either choose to combine their own developments with those of third parties, participation in other companies or the creation of startup companies and "innovation incubators."
Low-cost mobile terminals
The study also indicates that more than 500 million low-cost smartphones, costing less than 80 euros (100 dollars), could be in circulation in 2012, with nearly 300 million of these devices expected to be sold this year, which represents 20% of the annual production of mobile phones and a third of smartphones.
Huertas said that these devices will be aimed especially at users who do not yet have smartphones and at consumers in emerging markets.