Canadian smartphone data usage to increase five times by 2020: Ericsson

TORONTO – The future promises to be even more connected. According to a new report by Ericsson, advanced mobile technology will be commonplace around the globe within the next five years, with 90% covered by mobile broadband networks and 70% of the world's population using smartphones.The latest edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report said that smartphones accounted for three-fourths of mobile data traffic in Canada in 2014, and predicts that data usage per smartphone in this country will grow five times between 2014 and 2020.With the continued rise of smartphones and corresponding accelerated growth in data usage globally, smartphone data...