By the end of the decade, global mobile data traffic will have reached 30.6 exabytes – approximately 30 quintillion bytes or 30 billion gigabytes – per month, up from 3.7 exabytes in 2015, according to Cisco’s latest Visual Networking Index (VNI) mobile report.
The fastest adoption rates will be in developing markets, with Africa and the Middle East expected to see a 15-fold surge in traffic, compared with 9% in Asia-Pacific and 8% in Central and Eastern Europe, with Western Europe and North America up 6%.