There were some really interesting data in Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2010–2015. Check out some the data below. Please do read the report for more insight.
The Mobile Network in 2010 and 2011
- Global mobile data traffic grew 2.6-fold in 2010, nearly tripling for the third year in a row
- Last year's mobile data traffic was three times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000
- Mobile video traffic will exceed 50 percent for the first time in 2011.
- Mobile network connection speeds doubled in 2010
- The top 1 percent of mobile data subscribers generate over 20 percent of mobile data traffic, down from 30 percent 1 year ago.
- Average smartphone usage doubled in 2010.
- Smartphones represent only 13 percent of total global handsets in use today, but they represent over 78 percent of total global handset traffic
- Globally, 31 percent of smartphone traffic was offloaded onto the fixed network through dual-mode or femtocell in 2010
- Android approaches iPhone levels of data use
- In 2010, 3 million tablets were connected to the mobile network, and each tablet generated 5 times more traffic than the average smartphone.
- There were 94 million laptops on the mobile network in 2010, and each laptop generated 22 times more traffic than the average smartphone.
- Nonsmartphone usage increased 2.2-fold to 3.3 MB per month in 2010, compared to 1.5 MB per month in 2009.
- There are 48 million people in the world who have mobile phones, even though they do not have electricity at home.
The Mobile Network in 2015- Global mobile data traffic will increase 26-fold between 2010 and 2015
- There will be nearly one mobile device per capita by 2015
- Mobile network connection speeds will increase 10-fold by 2015
- Two-thirds of the world's mobile data traffic will be video by 2015
- Mobile-connected tablets will generate as much traffic in 2015 as the entire global mobile network in 2010
- The average smartphone will generate 1.3 GB of traffic per month in 2015
- By 2015, over 800 million terabytes of mobile data traffic will be offloaded to the fixed network by means of dual-mode devices and femtocells
- The Middle East and Africa will have the strongest mobile data traffic growth of any region at 129 percent CAGR
- There will be 788 million mobile-only Internet users by 2015
- The mobile network will break the electricity barrier in more than 4 major regions by 2015
