Cisco recently unveiled its Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, a rather long-winded title for a white paper. But don’t let its wordy head mislead you. Within its pages are some giddying data, forecasts, and conclusions that can send any geek’s heart to Nirvana, or something that resembles it in the geek world.
Anyway, according to Cisco, there were 36 million tablets connected to the mobile network in 2012. This figure was 2.5 times larger than that of the previous year. Data also revealed that each tablet generated 2.4 times more traffic than your average smartphone.
Along with this increase in number of connected mobile devices, mobile Internet traffic worldwide also increased 70 percent in 2012, almost double that of the previous year. Currently, mobile Internet traffic is 12 times bigger than the whole Internet worldwide way back in 2000.
