Allot - Mobile Data Traffic Increased 24% During World Cup Matches

    

Allot released today a new edition of its MobileTrends report - this time with a special World Cup report.

See the press release - "Allot MobileTrends World Cup Report: Mobile Devices Create a New Category During World Cup Games" - here and the report - here.

Allot's Key Findings from 2010 FIFA World Cup are:

• Mobile data bandwidth usage increased by 24% during the World Cup matches
   
• Web browsing traffic increased dramatically by 35% during match time
   
• YouTube grew by 32% on post-match mornings, greatly contributing to the 16% increase that occurred in mobile data bandwidth usage during this period
   
• Lunchtime matches showed the largest bandwidth increase with 31%
   
• Video streaming and P2P increased moderately by 11% and 13% respectively

 

See Allot's previous report - "Worldwide Mobile Data Usage has Increased by 72% (According to Allot)" - here and a link for a pre-event forecast - "World Cup traffic could clog mobile networks" - here