Wireless data roaming turned in a gold medal performance according to data released today from Aicent, Inc. ( www.aicent.com). With mobile phones from international GSM and CDMA networks accessing the Internet, sending pictures, videos and e-mails, it was the data roaming exchange services from Aicent, facilitating the seamless roaming between home carriers and the wireless networks of China Mobile and China Unicom, that effortlessly helped capture the gold as more people used wireless data roaming in China than ever before.
Data from Aicent’s roaming eXchange services shows a surge in wireless data roaming traffic exceeding 40 percent over the same period of days the month before. This increase in roaming traffic resulted in more than 332 GB of data being exchanged between 225 mobile operators in 106 different countries on the Aicent network. This increase in wireless data roaming is the equivalent of the content in books stored on nearly two miles of shelves.
The top twelve countries and territories for roaming traffic during this period were the United States, Hong Kong S.A.R., Japan, Australia, France, Spain, Macau S.A.R., Singapore, Finland, Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Aicent analyzed data from its network collected from Friday, August 8 — the day of the Olympic opening ceremonies — through the closing ceremonies on Sunday, August 24 and compared them to data collected from the same dates in July. When compared to data collected during the same period in 2007, wireless roaming traffic increased 70 percent.
Wireless operators were able to take advantage of Aicent’s state-of-the-art GPRS Roaming eXchange (GRX) and CDMA Roaming eXchange (CRX) services. As the surge in traffic in China demonstrates, Aicent’s technology lets mobile operators support rapidly growing mobile data services for an increasingly mobile user population that often needs to use services on the networks of more than one provider.