London Mayor cautioned for the probable Mobile network overloads during Olympics 2012

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Mayor of London, Boris Johnson cautioned on Thursday that there is a massive chance that the mobile phone networks may face problems during the next summer’s Olympics in 2012, as the sports audience will rush to send messages and pictures.

During the recent years, the whole world has witnessed a huge growth in the use of mobile phones and the vast features that are added with the passage of time. These features include using camera to take pictures and send it either via Bluetooth or through accessing the internet. Such technological advancement is expected to put pressure on the networks and may create network breakdowns or other problems during the 2012 London Games.

Mayor said that there is a huge amount of work going on at the moment to make sure that this sports event will have enough coverage. He further added, “We have got to be realistic, and in the 100 meters final or whatever it happens to be, people will want to download huge quantities all over the world, they will want to be sending huge quantities of data in JPEG (format) or film or whatever, and that will place massive strain on the network.”

Not only sports fans will be using mobile phones but transport and emergency services may also be using mobile phones to a huge extent, so any blockage of the system could be damaging. Major mobile networks had been shut down by the police during the July 7 attacks on London’s transport system.

It will not only prove to be annoying for the public but it also makes the city open to a potential reputation risk. Any mobile phone blackouts will also impact on operational aspects of the Games as well as disrupting other non-Olympic communications. However, there is an immense need for planning permission to put up posts, or mobile phone towers, hold up some installations, including on the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, as told by Johnson. But he is quite confident about the success of the future applications and said that he is sure that people will be able to use their machines in a very free way.

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