The latest
release by Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) has revealed that data usage by
mobile devices increased from 820 petabytes in a month in 2012 to 1.5 exabytes
in a month in 2013. It went further to forecast that this will increase to 15
exabytes in a month by 2018.
Cisco’s
Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update revealed that mobile data usage of
about 18 exabytes in 2013 is about 18 times the entire internet usage (1
exabyte) in 2000, thirteen years ago.
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It was
revealed that about 526 million mobile devices and connections were added in
2013 and mobile phones are expected to exceed the world population in numbers
this year. It was revealed that mobile video traffic accounted for 53% of the
mobile internet usage.
Smartphones
used 529MB per month on average in 2013 compared to 353MB per month in 2012. It
is expected that smartphones will account for 66% of mobile data usage by 2018.
Smartphones represented 27% of total global handsets in use in 2013.
Tablets are
expected to account for 15% of global mobile traffic by 2016 while 4G traffic
will be more than half of the total mobile traffic by 2018. It is expected that
the number of connected mobile devices would have exceeded 10 billion by 2018.
It is also expected that the average connection speed on mobile will exceed 2Mbps by 2016.
If all these stats point to one thing, it is that mobile devices are moving at
a fast pace and increasing its threat to PC by the day.
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