Survey Shows 21Mb as Next Frontier for Mobile Broadband
A recent survey by the GSA has shown that soon, mobile broadband services may be averaging a minimum of 21Mb download speed. This is expected to be consistently possible once the HSPA+ technology is deployed across networks.
Speeds advertised by service providers are almost never available to users, which makes the latter highly sceptical of any figures quoted by providers and analysers alike. Baseline speeds are thus not of much significance to users. However, a GSA survey conducted in July showed that baseline speeds of the existing broadband services hover at around 7.2 Mb worldwide.
The 7.2 Mb figure was arrived at because on an average, half of all HSPA technology networks are able to deliver this speed at peak use hours. This speed can also be attained by a number of mobile devices.
Encouraged by this, the GSA conducted a second survey entitled ‘Mobile Broadband - The Next Baseline’ to determine the future performance of broadband. Based on this survey that took into account network operators, suppliers and manufacturers, the next baseline for mobile broadband was found to be 21Mb.
This 21 Mb figure has been expected by industry insiders for the past year or so. Given this, it does seem likely that soon users may be able to enjoy 21Mb download speeds.
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