by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing

Just recently a research study reported that 50% of all mobile bandwidth is consumed by a measly 1% of mobile users, evidently with unlimited or very generous mobile data plans.

Wireless operators will need to step their game as more bandwidth consumption from mobile applications will be hitting hard. Today an estimated 40% of the mobile bandwidth consumption is from users watching video but what happens when more start mobile video calling?

If we add up the 600 hundred million smartphones on the market plus many millions of tablets, this represents a hefty number of mobile devices capable of mobile video conferencing.  Skype, Google, Cisco Movi, CounterPath Bria and LifeSize Mirial give the market lots of choices and Vidtel’s aim is to tie these all together with enterprise video conferencing, making mobile video calling that much more appealing.

Operators, are you listening? Gear up.