Cisco has recently released the Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Traffic Forecast, 2017-2022.
The report predicts that mobile data will nearly reach the zettabyte (one trillion gigabytes) milestone by 2022, mobile traffic will represent 20 percent of global IP traffic, smartphones will exceed 90% share of total mobile data traffic and mobile video will account for 79% of mobile data traffic.
It also shares stats about the number of mobile users, number of mobile-ready devices and IoT connections, mobile network connection speed and anticipates:
With the emergence of 5G, it will account for 3% of mobile connections and nearly 12% (9.2 EBs/month) of global mobile data traffic.
- 4G connections will grow 2-fold and will account for 54.3% of total mobile connections.
- 4G traffic will grow 7-fold, CAGR of 46% and account for 70.7% of total mobile data traffic.
- Other compelling figures include M2M connections, IOT growth as well as role and coverage of WIFI.
It shares stats about the number of mobile users, number of mobile-ready devices and IoT connections, mobile network connection speed and anticipates:
- With the emergence of 5G, it will account for 3% of mobile connections and nearly 12% (9.2 EBs/month) of global mobile data traffic.
- 4G connections will grow 2-fold and will account for 54.3% of total mobile connections.
- 4G traffic will grow 7-fold, CAGR of 46% and account for 70.7% of total mobile data traffic.
- Other compelling figures include M2M connections, IOT growth as well as role and coverage of WIFI.
Here are some interesting predictions specific to South Africa:
- Mobile data traffic will grow 9-fold from 2017 to 2022, a compound annual growth rate of 54%.
- Mobile data traffic will reach 1.2 exabytes per month by 2022 (the equivalent of 290 million DVDs), up from 133 petabytes per month in 2017.
- Mobile data traffic will grow at 54.3% CAGR, 2.2 times faster than fixed IP traffic CAGR of 24.2% from 2017 to 2022.
- Mobile data traffic will account for 49% of South African total IP (fixed and mobile data) traffic by 2022, up from 24% in 2017.
- The gigabyte equivalent of all movies ever made will cross mobile networks every 5 hours by 2022.
- Mobile traffic per mobile-connected end-user device will reach 12.0 gigabytes per month by 2022, up from 1.5 gigabytes per month in 2017.
- Mobile traffic per mobile connection (including M2M/LPWA) will reach 10.0 gigabytes per month by 2022, up from 1.4 gigabytes per month in 2017.
- Mobile traffic per user will reach 24.5 gigabytes per month by 2022, up from 3.0 gigabytes per month in 2017.
- Mobile traffic per capita will reach 19.3 gigabytes per month by 2022, up from 2.3 gigabytes per month in 2017.
- There will be 47 million (78% of South Africa’s population) mobile users by 2022, up from 44 million in 2017, a CAGR of 1.2%.
Edited by Fundisiwe Maseko
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