Mobile broadband connections to outstrip fixed line services

According to one industry expert the number of mobile broadband connections will outstrip the number of fixed line connections by three times by 2015.

Mobile broadband services have rocketed in popularity over the past few years, and there are now many people that rely on mobile broadband in order to get online whilst on the move for either business or personal use. Over the past couple of years there has been considerable debate over whether mobile broadband services could end up replacing fixed line broadband, although many industry experts claimed that this would not happen and most people that used mobile broadband services would do so to complement their fixed line connections.

However, new research has recently been carried out, and officials involved in the research have claimed that whilst fixed line broadband will continue to play an important part in the business and personal lives of many people, the number of mobile alternatives when it comes to getting online will outstrip fixed lines by around three hundred percent over the coming years.

Research was carried out by Ovum, and an official from the firm said that mobile broadband would outstrip fixed networks by three hundred percent by the end of 2015. He said that by this time there would be around 3.2 billion mobile broadband subscriptions worldwide, whereas the number of fixed lines by this time is expected to reach about one billion.

He said: “Emerging markets are more susceptible to mobile broadband substitution. However, on the whole this is not existing fixed broadband customers migrating to mobile broadband services, but people who have never had a fixed broadband connection moving straight to mobile broadband.”

Source – E Week Europe