Global mobile data traffic to surge 13x in next 4 years

SAN JOSE, CA - Worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 13-fold over the next four years, most of which will be driven by growth in the Asia Pacific region. By 2017 nearly half of all cellular traffic will be off-loaded to fixed or Wi-fi networks and 4G will support nearly 10% of all mobile connections. The predictions come from the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017. Worldwide mobile data traffic will reach 11.2 exabytes per month (for an annual run rate of 134 exabytes) by 2017. An exabyte is equal to one quintillion...