Offloaded mobile data will grow 100-fold by 2015, says research

WITH MOBILE DATA offloading expected to triple in the next five years, the traffic overloads starting to choke many mobile networks will only get worse, especially as smart phones and other mobile devices proliferate, predicts a new study from ABI Research.The report Mobile Network Offloading says that while about 16% of mobile data is diverted from mobile networks today, that is expected to increase to 48% by 2015. But data traffic itself will have grown by a factor of 30, meaning that offloaded data will expand 100-fold.Several approaches and technologies such as Wi-Fi, femtocells, mobile content delivery networks and media optimization will...