Mobile data traffic will rise sharply in the coming years

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Mobile data traffic will rise sharply in the coming years

According to a detailed report by Cisco VNI (Visual Networking Index) about data traffic on mobile phones, global mobile data traffic will multiply by 13 times in the next 5 years, from 2013-2017, and will reach a staggering 134 exabytes per year. As an example, this number equivalates to 10 MMS-type images produced by each person globally in an entire year.

The increase in mobile data traffic is due, among other causes, to significant growth in mobile Internet connections. In fact, Cisco's report expects that smartphones, laptops, and tablets will generate 93% of the global mobile data traffic in 2017.

In addition, Cisco points out that global mobile data traffic will exceed 3 times the fixed global data traffic during the period of 2012-2017. The Cisco report notes the following trends to be the reasons for this development:

• More mobile users. In 2017 there will be 5,200 million mobile users (from 4,300 million in 2012)
• More mobile connections. In 2017 there will be over 10,000 billion mobile-connected devices (from 7,000 million in 2012).
• Faster mobile connections. The average speed of mobile connections will multiply by 7 between 2012 (0.5 Mbps) and 2017 (3.9 Mbps).
• More mobile video. In 2017, the Global mobile video traffic will account for 66 percent of all global mobile data traffic (from the estimated 51 percent in 2012).

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