Think you use your mobile data plan a lot with 3G? Just wait ’til 4G is the pervasive protocol — you’ll be pulling down more bits and bytes than you can ever imagine. Or, at least that’s the good word from Cisco. Said company has ran some sort of fancy analysis in order to forecast that global mobile traffic will increase 66-fold between 2008 and 2013, with a compound annual growth rate of 131 percent over the same period. It’s stated that these projections reflect the impending transition to 4G, and if you can believe it, we’ll supposedly be exceeding two exabytes per month of global mobile traffic by 2013. Curiously, it’s stated that 64 percent of the world’s mobile traffic will be video by 2013, but given just how slow adoption on that front has been, we’re more than skeptical. For the rest of the numbers, give the read link a look.
Cisco sees 4G boosting global mobile traffic originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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