Vodafone, RIM CEOs sound alarm over wireless data crisis
Technology • March 2010 • Views: 224
By Chris Foresman | Last updated February 16, 2010 3:31 PM
Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao took to stage at Mobile World Congress is Spain this week to warn that smartphones—representing the only growth proposition in mobile phone sales—will soon begin to outstrip wireless networks’ capacity to send and receive data. While chipmakers, handset makers, and services providers are all cashing in on the growth, mobile carriers are left trying to “cope” with the growing demand for data from increasingly data-hungry phones.