Streaming, not P2P, behind mobile broadband data usage surge

Mobile data use grew by 30 percent in the second quarter of this year as HTTP streaming from sites like YouTube and Hulu surged 58 percent. P2P use can cause mobile data congestion, but it's growing far more slowly than other kinds of data traffic. arstechnica reports.

According to the report, "What is most noticeable from the data gathered in this report is that subscribers are treating their mobile networks much the same as they treat their fixed networks. This is particularly true for heavy data users who seem to expect the same service from the Internet, irrespective of their access method."

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