The Cisco study also projects that 71 percent of all smartphones and tablets (1.6 billion) could be capable of connecting to an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) mobile network by 2016.

ENGADGET: Cisco: mobile connections will hit 10 billion by 2016, helped by tablet boom

From a broader perspective, 39 percent of all global mobile devices (more than 4 billion), could be IPv6-capable by 2016.

ENGADGET: Cisco: mobile connections will hit 10 billion by 2016, helped by tablet boom