Apple’s new iPhone 5 could potentially cause challenges for carriers as millions of new customers jump onto the faster 4G LTE networks.
“The question now is whether the networks can handle the demand,” writes Technology Review.
Carriers are preparing. “Stung by the 3G congestion debacles consumers faced in recent years, they’ve spent billions of dollars to expand networks. At the same time, they instituted tiered pricing based on how much data consumers use, which has the effect of tamping down runaway demand,” notes the article.
As of today, there are 12.7 million LTE users in the U.S. Millions more will come with the iPhone 5 and problems could come with that rush, according to Bill Moore, the CEO of Rootmetrics.
“Whatever happens in the short term, demand is expected to explode in the next few years. Bell Labs has estimated that mobile data traffic will grow by a factor of 25 by 2016; Cisco says it will grow 18-fold over that time period,” writes Technology Review.
Apple’s new iPhone 5 could potentially cause challenges for carriers as millions of new customers jump onto the faster 4G LTE networks.
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