Wireless data traffic more than doubled in US in 2013

The total amount of data handled by wireless carriers in the U.S. more than doubled in 2013, an increase driven in large part by video traffic.

U.S. carriers saw 3.2 exabytes of data traffic run across their networks, the CTIA said in its annual report on the U.S. wireless industry. An exabyte is 10×18 bytes or, put another way, a billion gigabytes.

The figure represents a 120 percent increase from the 1.5 exabytes carried in all of 2012, the group said on Tuesday. The CTIA is the Washington, D.C, -based lobbying group that represents the industry and it conducted the survey among its members. The data refers to traffic carried over licensed spectrum.

With 336 million subscriptions in the U.S., that figure works out to an average of 801 megabytes per subscriber line per month.

A large proportion of that data was video. While the CTIA didn’t survey members on video traffic, Cisco recently said its networking data pointed to a total of 2.2 exabytes in video data being carried by mobile networks last year. That’s an average of 563 megabytes per subscriber line per month.

U.S. customers spent 218 billion minutes per month talking on their wireless devices, which works out to an average of 650 minutes per month per line; sent 153 billion text messages per month, or 457 messages per line; and 10 billion multimedia messages, or 30 per line.

On the network side, carrier networks grew slightly as the roll out of 4G services continued apace across the country. At the end of 2013, the entire U.S. wireless network consisted of 304,360 cell sites, a rise of around 2,500 on the year. The CTIA put annual capital expenditure by wireless carriers at $33.1 billion. [via pcworld]

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Changes:
IsoBuster now also provides access to logical drives (C: D: etc.) instead of only Physical drives (see options). This gives access to Windows volumes. So on a higher level, which means that drivers can translate the data first before IsoBuster gets it. This is particulary useful in case of encrypted volumes, for instance TrueCrypt mounted volumes
Dialog for experts with a [Professional] license to work with, test and complete managed image files
Once an IBP file is loaded, right mouse click the drive-selection control in the left corner and choose “Change or Test managed Image File Properties (Expert)”
Count the amount of errors inside a specified range
Change the status of an area
Complete the image file inside a range
Command line parameters /CI: /RANGE: /FROMTO: and /EP:NPC to complete a managed image file, inside a range or not
Ability to create an empty IBP/IBQ file set (no actual reads executed) via /ET:E to allow investigators to complete regions via /CI: and /RANGE: or /FROMTO:
Allow managed image files to be completed at the end with dummy data if the input drive is “*” (/D:*)
Implemented ability to reverse read (during extraction), using a given range
Ability to reverse read via command line parameter: /RR:[Interval]
Detect if the Linux EXT(2-4) file system is present and show an icon for it (exploration of EXT itself is not implemented but now an investigator knows it’s present
Detect if the Unix UFS(1-2) file system is present and show an icon for it (exploration of UFS itself is not implemented but now an investigator knows it’s present
Detect if the Linux Reiser(1-4) file system is present and show an icon for it (exploration of Reiser itself is not implemented but now an investigator knows it’s present
Detect if the Unix XFS(1-4) file system is present and show an icon for it (exploration of XFS itself is not implemented but now an investigator knows it’s present
Ability to load an additional LibEWF.dll next to the already present, embedded, libewf-20130416 version. A libewf.dll and its dependables need to be put in the /plugins/ folder
IsoBuster will now always first try to load the dynamic version (assumed to be more recent) before falling back on the embedded libewf-20130416 version. The embedded version may be removed over time to reduce the size again, we’ll see
New option that defines how strict surface scanning is and whether there should be an abort after an error.

Fixes:
Fixed an exception error that happened if auto-folder-scanning was interrupted by closing the application
Fixed an issue that could cause the last part of Video not to be saved to a file, when this video was being filtered via: “Extract but filter only MPG frames”

Improvements:
Improved device naming if Inquiry fails
Improved determination of HD vs USB stick/Flash etc.
Improved user feedback while cleaning up (sanitising) NTFS so that the user has an idea about where the process is
Create sparse files when extracting sparse files and no filters are in use for that file
Ability to drag files to IsoBuster’s TreeView, to open as image file, when IsoBuster is running in an elevated state
Popup warning when extracting from the ISO9660 file system, when other better file systems are present
Support for the *.image disk file format
Show attributes for Tracks, Sessions and Partitions in ListView (instead of N/A)
Fixed it so that HDs larger than 2 TB are seen as 2 TB instead of less, so that at least that space can be fully adressed and explored
Rewrote the automatic skipping and retry-count reducing mechanism, during extraction of a managed image file, to perform much better
Allow <%FN> in the filename, in case an image is extracted via the command line
Dependency on cc3250.dll for old Win2K OS in combination with multi-language support has been removed
You can now always choose the installation folder. Before this was dependant on previous installations
Show the object Type, cfr. Windows, in the ListView (for instance “JPG file”) and allow to sort this new column (column may be hidden by default, right mouse click the ListView columns to enable)
Added more sort options that will be performed rigt after the low level file system / folder exploring is done
Various other smaller GUI improvements

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