According to the Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast, CAGR for mobile data traffic is expected to be around 108%.
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The average amount of data used on a smartphone tripled from 2010 to 2011, according to Cisco's Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update.
In 2012-2017, mobile data traffic is forecast to grow 17-fold at a compound annual growth rate of 76%.
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Indonesia air traffic is forecast to grow at 20% a year, and the country's economy is growing at about 6% a year.
But those alternatives are not good enough to cope with the forecast traffic volumes.
You can't forecast auto traffic on a proposed new bridge by counting ferry boats.
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has forecast Africa traffic to expand by about 6.5% per annum between 2011-2020 and by 4.9% between 2021-2030, for a 20-year growth rate of 5.7%.
In reality, in 2010 mobile traffic was seven times the forecast amount.
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The number of users with mobile devices is expected to climb to 5.2 billion in 2017 from 4.3 billion in 2012 and traffic across high-speed 4G networks will grow 40-fold during that time, according to a five-year forecast for mobile traffic data compiled by Cisco Systems and released today.
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In 2005, the International Telecommunications Union forecast world-wide mobile traffic would increase from around 610 petabytes a year in 2010 to around 1450 petabytes a year in 2020.
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Recent studies forecast that worldwide consumer Internet traffic related to online gaming, IP communications, online video and audio will grow 500% by 2014 . 47.5 million people already play online games in the United States , and online video viewing is up 45% over last year .
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Airline stocks were reeling Monday, following a report from the International Air Transport Association reporting August passenger traffic slowed and offering a grim near-term forecast.
Don't forget China, which is forecast to account for two-thirds of all expansion in air traffic in Asia (projected growth: 8.6% a year from 1990 to 2010).
This mobile data traffic increase represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 78 percent spanning the forecast period.
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Today, mobile networks suffer the most acute impact as data traffic growth, driven by huge adoption of smartphones, tablets and other client devices, is forecast to grow at a 78% compounded annual growth rate from 2011 to 2016.
Baidu forecast strong growth in the current quarter, in part due to an anticipated jump in Internet traffic due to the Olympics.
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