Mobile Video Now More Than Half Of Wireless Traffic: Cisco [Multichannel News]
Cisco is out with its latest Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2011-16, and it contains some astounding data about consumers usage of mobile video.
By the end of last year, video viewing accounted for 52 percent of all wireless bandwidth usage. In the next four years, Cisco expects that to grow to 70 percent of all mobile data. Growth in video viewing was one of the main drivers that led to all mobile data usage more than doubling in 2011.
Cisco predicts that mobile data usage will increase by a multiple of 18 by 2016, totalling 10.8 exabytes used each month.
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