Apple iPhone users likely will be putting strain on the AT&T wireless network today, Sept. 25, 2009,. as multimedia messaging service, which allows iPhone users to send and receive pictures and video, is made available for the first time.
But the issue is going to grow in significance. Pyramid Research estimates mobile video usage will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 28 percent over the next five years. By 2014, more than 500 million users worldwide will subscribe to mobile video services, equal to 8.5 percent of all mobile subscription services.
That might not seem like much, but video requires about one to two orders of magnitude more bandwidth than voice (10 to 100 times).
YouTube says mobile uploads over the last six months have grown 1700 percent. and users have grown 70 percent.
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