The growing role of mobile technology – Computerworld

The findings are described in the latest edition of the Mobility Report 2015 published today by Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) show that by 2020, advanced mobile technology will be widely used throughout the world: the number of subscriptions smartphones will more than double, reaching 6.1 billion. 70% of the world’s population will use smartphones, and 90% will be within the coverage of mobile broadband networks.

A comprehensive report on current mobile trends shows that growth in developed markets due to increased number of devices per individual user. In developing regions, it results while a flurry of new subscriptions made possible by more favorable prices of smartphones; the end of 2020 nearly 80% of smartphone subscriptions will come from Asia / Pacific, Middle East and Africa.

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With the continuous growth quantity, there is a rapid increase in the use of data: is expected tenfold increase in the amount of data used by smartphones to 2020, when 80 percent of all mobile data traffic will come from smartphones. The average monthly data usage on smartphones in North America will increase from 2.4 GB to 14 GB in 2020.

The sharp increase in the number of applications and the falling cost of an Internet connection are key factors for the increase in the number of devices connected to the Internet . Adding to this new, more powerful applications easy to see that this leads to an even stronger increase in the number of these devices. Weather Ericsson contained in the report, says that in 2020 the Internet will be 26 billion connected devices – so we are on track to reach the number of 50 billion connected devices in the next several years.

Every year until 2020, mobile traffic Video will grow by as much as 55 percent annually and at the end of this period will constitute approximately 60 percent of all mobile data traffic. The increase is mainly driven by the changing preferences of the users of the services streaming video content and the growing dominance of video content on the Internet, including news, advertising and social media.

When we look at the use of the data in developed markets, mobile broadband, we see that a significant part of the movement is generated by a limited number of subscribers. These users data represent 10 percent of all subscribers, but generate 55 percent of all traffic data. Among the data consumed by these users dominate video content. They watch about an hour of video per day, which is 20 times more than the average users.

The report on mobility Ericsson shows data forecasting, analysis and provides insight into mobile data traffic, subscriptions and consumer behavior, making we know the current trends and market movement occurring in the network society.

Ericsson regularly measures the movement in more than 100 networks operating in all regions around the world. Detailed measurements are performed in selected commercial WCDMA / HSPA and LTE, and their goal is to explore various data traffic patterns.

• Advanced mobile technology will become ubiquitous by 2020, 70 percent of people use smartphones and 90 percent will be in the range of mobile broadband networks
• Number of subscription smartphones will double by 2020, reaching 6.1 billion. Over 80% of these new subscriptions will be located in Asia, Pacific, Middle East and Africa
• By 2020, 80 percent of all mobile data traffic will come from smartphones. North America and Europe will continue to have the highest consumption data in terms of smartphone
• video traffic will grow by 55 percent annually until 2020, a trend that will result from the popularity of streaming video and the domination of video content on the Internet

 

 
 

Link to the report: Mobility Report 2015