2% of users occupy half of SoftBank's traffic, increasing traffic is "a concern of mobile operators' management"

AT & T, the leading mobile phone company in the United States, is being provided for smartphones such as iPhones and iPads, etc., receiving increased traffic volumeDiscontinued "Packet flat-rate plan" and unified it into a plan with a rate-based billing systemWe talked about the other day, but SOFTBANK MOBILE offering iPhone and iPad in Japan is also never a fire on the opposite shore.

It is revealed by Mr. Masayoshi Son, president of the company that only 2% of users account for half of traffic.

Details are as below.
According to Softbank Mobile's son Masayoshi Official Twitter, a question from the user regarding maintaining a packet flat-rate plan was answered as "a troubling problem, a problem of management of a mobile operating company all over the world" It has become.
Twitter / Masayoshi Son: a troubling problem. It is a trouble of a manager of a mobile operating company all over the world ...


In addition, only 2% of users request about 50% of the total demand, despite the demand that users who are occupying traffic (communication users) want to maintain a flat rate system for general users I am revealing that I occupy traffic volume.
Twitter / Masayoshi Son: 2% of users occupy about 50% of the total communication capacity ...


The company alreadyWe have introduced policies to offer our public wireless LAN service free of charge for iPad usersIn addition,Start full-scale introduction of small base station "Femtocell" using broadband lineAlthough we are trying to actively distribute the traffic to other than 3G networks, if the traffic volume continues to increase, will one day be the day when the "packet flat rate plan" will collapse?