{"id":82268,"date":"2012-10-23T01:48:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/how-wireless-data-growth-is-slowing\/"},"modified":"2012-10-23T01:48:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:48:33","slug":"how-wireless-data-growth-is-slowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/how-wireless-data-growth-is-slowing\/","title":{"rendered":"How Wireless Data Growth is Slowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Wireless Spectrum, Data Usage, TMF Associates <\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: 10\/21\/2012<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Astronauts Mike Fossum and Ron Garan transferred the Robotic Refueling Mission module to the International Space Station\u2019s Dextre robot to initiate testing on July 12, 2011.\" width=\"137\" height=\"208\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/Timpic-132x200.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Tim Farrar, Principal at TMF Associates<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: TMF Associates\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>A review of <strong>CTIA<\/strong>\u2019s semi-annual wireless industry survey  by Tim Farrar, from <strong>TMF Associates<\/strong>, sheds some light on the reality of the wireless industry and the spectrum demand.<\/p>\n<p>Farrar contradicts the survey\u2019s conclusion by saying that in reality, there has been a \u201cdramatic slowdown\u201d in wireless traffic growth in 2012, from 54 percent total growth in 2011 to only 21 percent in the first half of the current year. The numbers don\u2019t only show a decline on traffic but also a significant decline in average wireless data traffic per cellphone-network connected device. He implies that this means device owners have plateaued in their consumption of data. <\/p>\n<p>Farrar doesn\u2019t reach a solid conclusion but suggests a change of behavior in consumers due to wireless providers\u2019 adoption of data limits in their services could be the reason for this slowdown.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Wireless Spectrum, Data Usage, TMF Associates Publication Date: 10\/21\/2012 Tim Farrar, Principal at TMF Associates Image credit: TMF Associates A review of CTIA\u2019s semi-annual wireless industry survey by Tim Farrar, from TMF Associates, sheds some light on the reality of the wireless industry and the spectrum demand. Farrar contradicts the survey\u2019s conclusion by saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}