tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post2791685913662040837..comments2024-03-20T22:57:03.923+00:00Comments on Dean Bubley's Disruptive Wireless: How much mobile broadband traffic is outside the user's awareness?Dean Bubleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05719150957239368264noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post-62276625060852595482010-03-24T13:28:33.168+00:002010-03-24T13:28:33.168+00:00I do not think the traffic sources you listed are ...I do not think the traffic sources you listed are a significant percentage of the total data downloaded in a mobile broadband connection. <br /><br />As it seems at the moment, the main traffic in Mobile Broadband (used via USB dongles) is composed of peer-to-peer traffic to download music/movies.<br /><br />Perhaps you have different data?Davidenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post-70430222265688241232010-03-23T21:21:55.168+00:002010-03-23T21:21:55.168+00:00This is an important topic for sure, though probab...This is an important topic for sure, though probably much more important on mobile than fixed - the majority of the world has large enough quotas for most of that stuff to not matter on PCs, even though the "background" traffic is much bigger in terms of MBs on the PCs. <br /><br />On the mobile, however, many users have to live with pay-as-you-go data or with limited quotas. <br /><br />Without going into the numbers in too much detail, having your mobile always-on enabled with persistent connections (as, say, all the iPhones are thanks to their new notification architecture) can contribute to the tune of 20MB per month of data - not an insignificant amount. If you're paying by megabyte, you will not appreciate knowing you paid for 20MB "for nothing".Samihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06035530222378610371noreply@blogger.com