Application downloads are forecast to overtake revenue generated from voice services by 2013, upping the demand on network traffic Flat-rate mobile data tariffs look like an endangered species in the US and Europe. Mobile operators say that the all-you-can-eat model is damaging their ability to increase their revenues, and that the cost of building next-generation networks and providing the backbone capacity for the data is a “critical challenge”

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Mobile operators signal end of flat-rate data tariffs as app use grows