Market Insight

Five Bars of Capacity - Coming to a Smartphone Near You

Author: Aditya Kaul, Practice Director, Mobile Networks

Published: 15 Mar 2011

The only meter on a mobile device today is the five-bar coverage indicator. Unfortunately that doesn’t provide enough information on available capacity. Quite often the case is that users see five-bars of coverage, but are unable to download email or even make a phone call. How soon can we expect the synonymous five-bar coverage to be accompanied by a smart capacity meter that provides real-time capacity information?

The full text of this Insight is available to subscribers of the Mobile Operator Strategies Research Service and the Smartphones & Mobile Devices Research Service and the Mobile Networks Research Service and the Femtocell and Small Cell Research Service.

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