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Over half of mobile traffic to come from homes by 2013
Mobile calls generated from a home environment will account for more than half of all traffic by 2013, according to new figures.
Around 58 per cent of all mobile traffic will come from people using their phones at home in 2013, compared with 42 per cent in 2008, says the research by Informa Telecoms and Media.
The report predicts that the closing gap in prices between fixed and mobile calls, coupled with the increasing number of home workers and new technology like VoIP will see consumers increasingly turn to mobile communications.
Malik Saadi, Informa's principal analyst, said that just as voice traffic has moved from fixed-line telephony to become mobile, internet traffic would "move away from fixed personal computers to mobile devices including mobile handsets, mobile internet devices and connected notebooks".
Mr Saadi added that 2007 had been a "watershed"; in mobile providers realising that they could provide other services beyond simple phone calls.
Britons spent an average of seven hours and nine minutes a day on the internet, watching TV or their mobile phone in 2007, according to an Ofcom report.
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