New whitepaper from Cisco reveals 74 per cent increase in global mobile traffic in 2015

The report, which presents some of Cisco’s major global mobile data traffic projections and growth trends, has also revealed that global mobile data traffic reached 3.7 exabytes per month at the end of 2015, up from 2.1 exabytes per month at the end of 2014. According to www.whatsabyte.com, “it has been said that 5 Exabytes would be equal to all of the words ever spoken by mankind” – with one exabyte equivalent to one billion gigabytes or one thousand petabytes.

It was also found that fourth-generation (4G) traffic exceeded third-generation (3G) traffic for the first time in 2015 and generated six times more traffic on average than a non 4G connection. Cisco statistics also show that 4G connections represented only 14 per cent of mobile connections in 2015 and account for 47 per cent of mobile data traffic, while 3G connections represented 34 per cent of mobile connections and 43 per cent of the traffic.