Mobile data traffic is growing at 52% per year. The demand for mobile data and falling revenue per gigabyte are forcing operators to seek ways to reduce network carriage costs and restore margins. If operators were to provide the capacity needed to meet traffic growth using 4G only, they may spend more than EUR600 000 on a single site during the next five years.
In this webinar, Principal Analyst, Terry Norman, covers some of the findings of our major report, The case for Wi-Fi offload: the costs and benefits of Wi-Fi as a capacity overlay in mobile networks. This report shows how site capex can be reduced by as much as 80% using Wi-Fi access points, and discusses the operational challenges that this entails.
The areas that we discuss in this webinar include:
- the drivers of Wi-Fi offload
- the cost of deploying commercial Wi-Fi cells
- the leading operators’ propositions
- alternatives to, and problems with, Wi-Fi offload.
The webinar slides and recording are available upon request.
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