Posted: 07th Nov, 2011 By: MarkJ


Telecoms manufacturer
Ericsson has predicted that Mobile Broadband data traffic, fuelled by
rising demand for internet video content and the next generation of superfast 4G connection services, will experience a "
10-fold increase" between 2011 and 2016
Mobile Broadband subscriptions will also grow from
900 Million customers today (i.e. by the end of 2011) to a staggering
5 Billion in 2016, which is when users living on less than 1% of the Earth's total land area will generate roughly 60% of all mobile traffic.
Ericsson also expects that 30% of the world's population will live in metropolitan and urban areas with a density of more than
1,000 people per square kilometre (km) by 2016. In addition advanced Smartphone's will generate a 12-fold increase in traffic to equal mobile PC-generated traffic by the same year.