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The Pokemon Go! rage should give us all pause. In its first month, over 100M people downloaded the app and many mobile operators were surprised by the game’s peculiar impact on their mobile data subscribers. This video provides a brief view into how things played out, leading us to ask—are you ready for the next big app?
Topics: Bandwidth, Quality of experience qoe, User experience, Mobile, Network analytics, Network performance, Dpi, Mobile subscriber experience
There have been reports over the past few days that Pokemon Go is already declining, so we decided to go back to the same network that we initially looked at to see if this was the case. As a reminder, this is a European mobile network.
Topics: Pokemon go
In this era of the Internet of Things (IoT), there is no practical limit to the number of devices that can have an IP address. Knowing this, Sandvine decided to do a little research with the hopes of shedding light on how the devices in your home impact modern fixed networks.
The swimming events in Rio garnered worldwide attention as Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky led the US team’s dominance of the pool. But who won the App Gold medal for the swimming venue?
Topics: Facebook, Whatsapp, 2016 olympics
I wrote about the Opening Ceremonies here, and showed how Facebook properties dominated mobile network traffic for that event. Unfortunately for other social networks, that trend continued for both the semifinal and final football (soccer for Americans) events and the Closing Ceremonies.
Topics: Facebook, 2016 olympics
Earlier this week, we published some preliminary data on Olympic streaming in the US.
Good news: The Olympics are back!
The Olympics kicked off in Brazil over the weekend (in case you live in a cave and missed the news), and rather than talk about the impact on Netflix (which dipped but not as severe as the 2012 London Olympics), I thought we could do something different.
Topics: Facebook, Pokemon go, 2016 olympics
Niantic timed their entry into the Olympics perfectly – as Pokemon Go is now available in Brazil. The game is so popular that the Mayor of Rio actually begged that the game be released in Brazil in time for the Olympics. One of the Olympians loved it so much that he accidently spent $5000 in data roaming charges playing the game!
Topics: Bandwidth, Pokemon go
There was a lot of interest in my blog on Pokemon last week, and we kept watching over the weekend to see if the craze would continue. I am sure that most people saw the craziness from Central Park when a rare Pokemon showed up, and I watched my youngest son take walks around our neighborhood to catch Pokemon (and he was not the only person I saw walking...
Topics: Big data, Mobile operators, Pokemon go
