Looking ahead, Cisco says it expects worldwide mobile data traffic to increase 13-fold by 2017 to 11.2 exabytes per month or 134 exabytes per year.

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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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This is probably due to Chitika only analyzing US and Canada traffic and IDC being worldwide estimates.

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This "will enable operators worldwide to increase customer loyalty and grow network usage through SMS traffic, " said David Lloyd, director of Sema Telecoms Messaging, according to a company statement.

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Worldwide, phone companies still earn 90% of revenue from voice traffic.

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Quantcast, another web analytics service, estimates the monthly traffic to be somewhere between 250, 000 and 350, 000 visitors worldwide.

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Features like social media services, live traffic and weather updates and automatic emergency calling will be available in 650 percent more cars worldwide in 2017 than there were in 2010, according to analysts at IMS Research.

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At the time, the company was touting increases Web traffic that, if continued, would land them a spot among the top destination sites worldwide: annual growth of 300 percent and a whopping 1.7 million SEO-friendly Ning Networks created.

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