Mobile internet set to see huge investment

MOBILE operators worldwide are investing up to $72 billion in wireless broadband technologies this year, to accommodate surging demand, according to telecoms industry body GSMA.

The GSM Association (GSMA) said on Wednesday the operators were expected to increase expenditure by about 15 percent.

Up to $34 billion will be invested in the Asia Pacific region, some $19 billion in North America and up to $14 billion in Europe, the GSMA said.

"In addition, HSPA is showing significant increase in growth," Dan Warren, director of technology at GSMA said. High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is a widely deployed technology that can handle both voice and data transfers so users can talk on the phone and surf the Web at the same time. "By the end of this year we will have almost 340 million HSPA connections globally with 13 million new connections per month," Warren said.

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