Fourth Wave Facts
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- Mobile data traffic will approximately double each year from 2008 through 2012.
- The key drivers will be video and Web 2.0 social networking and collaboration applications.
- In 2012, internet video traffic will be 400 times the total traffic carried by the U.S. internet backbone in 2000.
- At that time, video on demand, IPTV, peer-to-peer video, and internet video will account for nearly 90% of all consumer IP traffic.
- Global IP traffic will reach 44 billion gigabytes per month in 2012, up from seven billion per month in 2007 and five billion for all of 2002.
- From 2011 to 2012, monthly growth in global IP traffic will exceed its total growth from 2000 to 2008.
- Worldwide mobile internet users will increase from 577 million in 2008 to 1.7 billion in 2013.
Sources: Cisco Systems Visual Networking Index Forecast for 2007-2012; Juniper Research
- World population = 6.7 billion
- Mobile service subscriptions = 3.3 billion
- First billion in 20 years
- Second billion in four years
- Third billion in two years
- 68% of subscriptions in developing countries (2006)
- 80% of world population with access to wireless network coverage
– 90% by 2010
Sources: International Telecommunications Union (ITU); Wireless Intelligence
- Internet users worldwide = 1.5 billion
– PC/laptop = 70%
– Mobile device = 30%
- PCs = 1 billion
- Fixed landline phones = 1.3 billion
- TV sets = 1.5 billion
- Credit card users = 1.4 billion
- Automobiles = 850 million
Sources: Forrester Research; Morgan Stanley Research; Tomi Ahonen Consulting
Mobile Service Subscriptions by Geography
- 600 million in China = 50% penetration
- 440 million in Western Europe = 110%
- 375 million in Latin America = 66%
- 300 million in Africa = 30%
- 290 million in India = 26%
– 500 million by 2010
- 260 million in U.S. = 85%
– 50% of children under 18
Sources: Morgan Stanley Research; Wikipedia