Global mobile traffic set to skyrocket in next four years: Cisco

SAN JOSE, CA - Worldwide mobile data traffic will increase nearly 11-fold over the next four years due to increases in mobile users, mobile connections, faster mobile speeds and more mobile video, predicts a new report from Cisco.According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2013 to 2018, mobile Internet connections, such as personal devices and machine-to-machine (M2M) connections, will exceed 10 billion by 2018 and be 1.4 times greater than the world’s population (the United Nations estimates 7.6 billion people by 2018).In Canada, mobile data traffic is projected to grow 9-fold from 2013 to 2018,...