Sandvine Report: Netflix's British Invasion, WhatsApp is Happening in Africa

"While the app of choice varies drastically between continents and countries, this latest report makes it clear that mobile messaging matters," said Mr. Caputo. "An African mobile operator that used Sandvine's solutions to offer affordable daily, weekly and monthly zero-rated WhatsApp plans saw the application soar above 20% of network usage. There's no better example of the power of service innovation, because users that otherwise could not afford to access the Internet from mobile devices are now rapidly adopting data plans."

"While the app of choice varies drastically between continents and countries, this latest report makes it clear that mobile messaging matters," said Mr. Caputo. "An African mobile operator that used Sandvine's solutions to offer affordable daily, weekly and monthly zero-rated WhatsApp plans saw the application soar above 20% of network usage. There's no better example of the power of service innovation, because users that otherwise could not afford to access the Internet from mobile devices are now rapidly adopting data plans."

Sandvine's Global Internet Phenomena Report 1H2014 contains findings from fixed and mobile networks around the world, including:

On Demand Video 

Messaging 

Live Streaming 

"Just over two years after its launch, Netflix has become the second largest driver of traffic on fixed access networks in the UK and Ireland," said Dave Caputo, President and CEO, Sandvine. "This rapid ascent underscores how important it is that operators have business intelligence solutions in place to accurately measure and monitor the impact that over-the-top services have on their networks."

Check out Sandvine's Internet Phenomena blog on a regular basis for the latest trends, predictions and phenomena impacting Internet usage around the world.

GLOBAL INTERNET PHENOMENA REPORT METHODOLOGY
Sandvine's Global Internet Phenomena Reports are based on a representative cross-section of Sandvine's data from a selection of Sandvine's 250-plus customers spanning North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Caribbean and Latin America and Asia-Pacific. Data is gathered over a one-month period and is completely subscriber-anonymous. No identifiable information of any kind, including IP addresses are collected during the study. Sandvine's network equipment analyzes data from an application utilization level and is not content aware.

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Sandvine's network policy control solutions are deployed in more than 250 networks in over 90 countries, serving hundreds of millions of data subscribers worldwide, http://www.sandvine.com.

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