Global Mobile Data Traffic Set to Explode by 2018

The rise of mobile is still going strong, with cell tower-based data traffic growing 81% worldwide in 2013

In fact, last year's mobile traffic was nearly 18 times the size of the entire Internet in 2000, according to a new report from Cisco. As part of the company's Visual Networking Index, Cisco released its Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update/.

The report's main data point: average mobile traffic per user around the world will grow exponentially in the next five years. In 2013, mobile traffic per user averaged 356MB of data per month; that's expected to reach more than 3GB per month in 2018. Read more...