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Cisco - 64% of world’s mobile traffic will be video by 2013

Cisco has released research on mobile data traffic growth under the banner of the Visual Networking Index. Some of the key points include:

• Global mobile traffic will exceed two exabytes per month by 2013.
• Global mobile data traffic reached one exabyte per month in half the time that fixed data traffic did.
• Nearly 64 percent of the world’s mobile traffic will be video by 2013.
• Mobile video will grow at a CAGR of 150 percent between 2008 and 2013.
• Mobile broadband handsets with higher than 3G speeds and laptop air or data cards will constitute more than 80 percent of global mobile traffic by 2013.

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