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1.6 mobile exabytes a month by 2014: ABI.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
Wireless Asia, August, 2009 by Bushell-Embling, Dylan
By 2014, the amount of mobile data traffic generated each month will significantly exceed the traffic generated in all of 2008, according to AB1 Research.
An average of 1.6 exabytes of data will be transmitted each month in 2014, compared to 1.3 exabytes for the whole of 2008, the research firm said.
By that time, Asia-Pacific will have overtaken Western Europeas the largest market, contributing to 28% of all traffic.
Despite the preponderance of smartphones, the bulk of traffic is--and will continue to be--generated by laptops with modems, ABI said.
"The launch of 4G services promises even more data capability--full multimedia on a greater number of devices," senior analyst Jeff Orr said. "But it's a more pragmatic approach...
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