The Mobile industry has already begun to move away from device-based, closed-off test equipment in favour of software and connected tools.
Entering a Golden Age
According to Deloitte, "more than 60% of all broadband subscribers would be utilizing Voice over LTE (VoLTE) technology for voice services by 2023 surpassing 5 billion subscribers globally. It is estimated that more than 90% of all mobile subscribers will constitute of broadband subscribers by 2023 thereby making VoLTE the most prevalent voice technology in the future."
Mobile network operators demand reliable test equipment is able to produce repeatable results but unfortunately, smartphones can't cope with such a demanding requirement. Consumer devices have not been designed and built for this purpose and even less for being intensively used 24/7.
For this reason, commercial devices end up facing outages due to high internal temperature, batteries swollen and also producing unreliable metrics as a result of hardware issues.
Apart from these issues, the operative system and applications of smartphones are also suffering due to long testing processes. This high demanding necessity causes device underperformance and failures which produce inaccurate metrics that can only be temporarily fixed by restarting the mobile phone very frequently. The cost of this workaround is the reducing test execution rate.
Testing and measuring activities are necessary activities part of VoLTE roll-out, and early adopters of VoLTE that initially deployed testing solutions based on smartphones, have already started to replace these systems with more reliable and advanced solutions.
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