In just a few short years, mobile has taken over how we communicate, shop, stay informed and capture the moment. Add social sharing, multi-media and web browsing, and mobile has all but replaced the desktop PC as the preferred personal computing device for millions of users.
Just last year, the FCC released a detailed study on the bandwidth consumption in the United States, concluding that the available spectrum would not be enough to sustain the kind of growth expected in the coming years.
Mobile alone is not to blame. Higher quality video, photos and graphics account for much of the added load, as does increased dependence on cloud synchronization and social networking. Mobile Future’s 2011 Year in Review reveals how more than a billion apps were downloaded worldwide each month in 2011, 103 million tweets posted to Twitter from mobile devices each day and 8 trillion text messages sent – all contributing to an 1800% increase in traffic on U.S. Networks alone.
Their newest inforgraphic “Mobile Data Growth and What it Means for You” offers a snapshot of the sharply increasing mobile device usage by Americans in an appeal to increase available resources before it affects us.
What You Can Do
You can’t be expected to cut back on your streaming or internet usage, but you can optimize your website for mobile viewing by creating a friendly mobile version with the mobile website builder. Mobile websites perform faster, scaled for smaller screens and taking advantage of data handling methods or streamlined markup to ensure content delivery is quick and light on bandwidth. Learn more.