Ericsson: Video Driving Mobile Data Traffic

June 3, 2013
Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) has released the newest edition of its Mobility Report, indicating that mobile-data traffic is expected to continue to grow significantly in the coming years, a trend driven mainly by video. Among the findings: Video traffic has been g...
Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) has released the newest edition of its Mobility Report, indicating that mobile-data traffic is expected to continue to grow significantly in the coming years, a trend driven mainly by video. Among the findings:


  • Video traffic has been growing by 60% annually, driven by better network speeds.


  • Total global smartphone subscriptions hit the 1.2 billion mark in 2012, and are expected to reach 4.5 billion by the end of 2018.


  • 60% of the world's population is expected to be covered by LTE in 2018.


  • Smartphone users spend the most time on social networks, an average of 85 minutes a day in some networks.


  • Data traffic volumes doubled between Q1 2012 and Q1 2013 and are expected to grow 12-fold by 2018.


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