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<\/a><\/p>\nAkamai’s Q4 2016 State of the Internet report shows huge growth in mobile data traffic over the past few years, while voice traffic is almost flat.<\/p>\n
The report uses insight from mobile vendor Ericsson, which has a presence in over 180 countries and a customer base representing more than 1,000 networks.<\/p>\n
The result is a base for calculating world total mobile traffic on 2G, 3G, and 4G networks.<\/p>\n
The graph below shows global data and voice traffic over the past five years.<\/p>\n
The growth in data traffic is being driven by increased smartphone usage and a continued increase in average data volume per user –\u00a0fueled primarily by increased viewing of video content.<\/p>\n
In Q4 2016, data traffic grew more than 13% quarter-over-quarter – and more than 54% year-over-year.<\/p>\n
Looking at the five-year period, cumulative voice traffic growth was 31%, while cumulative data traffic growth was over 1,200%.<\/p>\n
The latest Akamai State of the Internet report shows that mobile data traffic volumes are skyrocketing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":166408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3340,21887,35,3342,21885],"class_list":["post-202100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-akamai","tag-data-traffic","tag-headline","tag-state-of-the-internet","tag-voice-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202400,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202100\/revisions\/202400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nNow read:\u00a0Simple charts show why South Africans are begging for fibre<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"