A research titled “Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2013 to 2018”, reports that mobile data traffic in the region will increase 14-fold by 2018. Some other key features of the report are
- MEA mobile data traffic will reach 1.49 Exabytes per month by 2018 which is equivalent of 4,105 million text messages each second.
- MEA mobile data traffic will grow 2 times faster than region’s fixed IP traffic from 2013 to 2018.
- MEA mobile data traffic will account for 39% of region’s fixed and mobile data traffic by 2018, up from 10% in 2013.
- In MEA, 36% of mobile connections will be ‘smart’ connections by 2018, up from 10% in 2013.
- In MEA, 90% of mobile data traffic will be ‘smart’ traffic by 2018, up from 76% in 2013
