While social networking explodes and consumers transfer their daily web habits to the mobile phone mobile network infrastructures, previously thought capable of handling consistently heavy traffic, are now showing strain under the torrent of new data they carry every day. No one expects network congestion to abate, and what is being done about it is being met with mixed reaction. On the horizon is 4G; marketed as the “miracle cure for data congestion”, it is considered by some as a band-aid solution and by others a universal panacea. 
Patrick Lopez is chief marketing officer of Vantrix
