Not only the UK, but many countries are feeling the strain of smartphones clogging up their respective mobile phone networks.
As reported by the International Telecommunications Union of United Nations, HTC Desire, iPhone and other smartphones are the reason behind such network issues as they take up to five times more data as compared to a standard cell phone. However, wider-spread and better fibre optic cables should resolve these issues.
In fact, the number of smartphone users will only increase as all the analysts and experts see it and this number is expected to rise from the current 500 million to at least 2 billion by 2015. The number of mobile phones too is increasing all over the world with even the developing countries having poor landline structures and internet facilities using their mobile phones for communication as well as web connection. Not to be missed in this race is the increasing number of tablet gadgets world over, which too use mobile network services to access any data.
ITU’s Secretary-General, Dr. Hamadoun Toure, in a statement said that mobile operators across the world are investing billions to not only upgrade but also improve their network’s performance and capacity. Even then, high-usage cities like London, New York and San Francisco still get complaints from users with respect to perennial network unavailability. To support the ever increasing number of data-intensive applications, robust broadband plans are needed which will promote quicker roll-out of fibre networks and promote extra spectrum.
Due to its lagging support infrastructure, UK is anyways also facing issues with its sluggish broadband networks.
