5.2 billion mobile users, 292 billion gigabytes mobile traffic by 2019

Posted on February 3, 2015 by GilPress
In February 2015, Cisco released the Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast, 2014 – 2019. Global highlights from the updated study include the following projections:

By 2019:

  • There will be 5.2 billion global mobile users, up from 4.3 billion in 2014
  • There will be 11.5 billion mobile-ready devices and connections, more than 4 billion more than there were in 2014
  • The average mobile connection speed will increase 2.4-fold, from 1.7 Mbps in 2014 to 4.0 Mbps by 2019
  • Global mobile IP traffic will reach an annual run rate of 292 exabytes, up from 30 exabytes in 2014

VNI-Infographic

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I'm Managing Partner at gPress, a marketing, publishing, research and education consultancy. Also a Senior Contributor forbes.com/sites/gilpress/. Previously, I held senior marketing and research management positions at NORC, DEC and EMC. Most recently, I was Senior Director, Thought Leadership Marketing at EMC, where I launched the Big Data conversation with the “How Much Information?” study (2000 with UC Berkeley) and the Digital Universe study (2007 with IDC). Twitter: @GilPress
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