Mobile Internet use will continue to surge over the next five years, at a rate of 66 percent each year as the world gets its hands on more mobile devices and more machines are connected to each other and the Web, according to a report by Cisco released late Tuesday.
In fact, connected devices will outnumber humans this year, according to the annual Visual Networking Index report.
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Cisco: Connected devices will outnumber humans this year.
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The surge in mobile Internet traffic will come from a global population doing more functions throughout the day over wireless gadgets.
By 2017, the averge mobile user will watch 10 hours of video, listen to 15 hours of music, make 5 video calls and dowload 15 apps each month.
In all, global mobile traffic will increase to 134 exabytes in 2017, according to the firm’s Visual Networking Index.
To get to that number, every human on earth would have to exchange 10 text photos or Instagrams every day for an entire year. Or, every human would have to view one video clip on YouTube, every day for a year.
And people will use their mobile devices more than home computers to access the Internet. In five years, Cisco said mobile data traffic will outgrow global landline data traffic by three times.
What's driving all this mobile Internet activity?
All you users. By 2017, there will be an estimated 5.2 billion people using mobile phones, up from 4.3 billion in 2012. There will also be about 1.7 billion connected machines — anything from a home appliance to a car — in five years.
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