3.5 and 4G handsets and laptops will drive the increase in wireless traffic
In its Mobile Forecast for 2008-2013 released today, Cisco is projecting global mobile traffic to increase 66-fold between 2008 and 2013.
Video on fourth-generation (4G) mobile Internet networks will be the main driver for this tremendous growth.
Here are some more findings from Cisco’s Mobile Forecast:
- Global mobile traffic will exceed two exabytes per month by 2013;
- Nearly 64 percent of the world’s mobile traffic will be video by 2013;
- Mobile video will grow at a CAGR of 150 percent between 2008 and 2013;
- Latin America will have the strongest mobile growth at 166 percent CAGR, followed by the Asia-Pacific region at 146 percent;
- Asia-Pacific will account for one-third of all mobile data traffic by 2013;
- Mobile broadband handsets with higher than 3G speeds and laptop air or data cards will constitute more than 80 percent of global mobile traffic by 2013.
