Cisco sees mobile data usage increasing 8-fold by 2016

Cisco Systems, the company that wants to build “the human network” released their annual Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast today, and they foresee mobile users consuming data in 2016 at a rate 8x higher than they project for this year.
How much data is that? Cisco expects mobile data usage in 2012 to average 1.3 exabytes a month (an exabyte is a thousand petabytes, or if you prefer, a million terabytes of data). In four short years that number will balloon to an astonishing 10.8 exabytes of mobile data per month. Around that time Cisco also expects the number of mobile devices to eclipse 10 billion, at which point there will be more than one mobile device for every man, woman, and child e... »read more

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