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    Cisco Projects There will be Nearly 850 Million Mobile Users in M. East and Africa By 2017

    CyrusBy CyrusFebruary 22, 2013Updated:February 18, 2019No Comments4 Mins Read
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    According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017, in the Middle East and Africa (MEA), there will be 849,226,090 mobile users in 2017. The expected steady increase in mobile traffic is partly due to continued strong growth in the number of mobile Internet connections (personal devices and machine-to-machine applications), which will exceed the world’s population (United Nations estimates 7.6 billion) by 2017:

    2017 VNI MEA Highlights:

    • In Middle East and Africa, mobile data traffic will grow 17-fold from 2012 to 2017, a compound annual growth rate of 77%.
    • In Middle East and Africa, mobile data traffic will reach 861,298 Terabytes (0.86 Exabytes) per month in 2017, the equivalent of 215 million DVDs each month or 2,374 million text messages each second.
    • In Middle East and Africa, mobile data traffic will account for 17% of Middle Eastern and African fixed and mobile data traffic in 2017, up from 8% in 2012. (An official Cisco VNI fixed IP traffic forecast through 2017 will not be released until June 2013.)

    Business Mobile Traffic in MEA:

    • In 2012, Middle East and Africa’s business mobile data traffic grew 1.7-fold, or 69%.
    • In Middle East and Africa, business mobile traffic will grow 11-fold from 2012 to 2017, a compound annual growth rate of 60%.
    • Business will account for 12% of Middle East and Africa’s mobile data traffic in 2017, compared to 19% at the end of 2012.

    Video in MEA:

    • In Middle East and Africa, mobile video traffic will grow 27-fold from 2012 to 2017, a compound annual growth rate of 93%.
    • Video will be 72% of Middle East and Africa’s mobile data traffic in 2017, compared to 47% at the end of 2012.
    • Video reaches half of Middle East and Africa’s mobile data traffic by year-end 2012

    Consumer Mobile Traffic in MEA:

    • In 2012, Middle East and Africa’s consumer mobile data traffic grew 2.1-fold, or 110%.
    • In Middle East and Africa, consumer mobile traffic will grow 19-fold from 2012 to 2017, a compound annual growth rate of 80%.
    • Consumer will account for 88% of Middle East and Africa’s mobile data traffic in 2017, compared to 81% at the end of 2012
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    During the 2012 to 2017 forecast period, Cisco anticipates that global mobile data traffic will outpace global fixed data traffic by a factor of three. The following major trends are driving global mobile data traffic growth:

    • More mobile users: By 2017, there will be 5.2 billion mobile users (up from 4.3 billion in 2012).
    • More mobile connections: By 2017, there will be more than 10 billion mobile devices/connections, including more than 1.7 billion M2M connections (up from 7 billion total mobile devices and M2M connections in 2012).
    • Faster mobile speeds: Average global mobile network speeds will increase seven-fold from 2012 (0.5 Mbps) to 2017 (3.9 Mbps).
    • More mobile video: By 2017, mobile video will represent 66 percent of global mobile data traffic (up from 51 percent in 2012).

    Impact of Mobile Devices/Connections

    • Smartphones, laptops, and tablets will drive 93 percent of global mobile data traffic by 2017.
    • M2M traffic (such as GPS systems in cars, asset tracking systems, medical applications, etc.) will represent 5 percent of 2017 global mobile data traffic.
    • Basic handsets will account for the remaining 2 percent of global mobile data traffic in 2017.
    • In 2012, 14 percent of all mobile-connected devices/connections (1 billion) were IPv6-capable.
    • By 2017, 41 percent of all mobile-connected devices/connections (4.2 billion) will be IPv6-capable.

    Traffic Offload from Mobile Networks to Fixed Networks

    To address the rise in demand for mobile Internet, and to address the lack of available new mobile spectrum and the expense and complexity of adding new macrocell sites, service providers are increasingly looking to offload traffic to fixed or Wi-Fi networks.

    4G Adoption and Mobile Data Traffic Growth

    Many global mobile carriers are deploying 4G technologies to address consumer and business users’ demands for wireless services. In many emerging markets, carriers are creating new mobile networks with 4G solutions. In mature markets, carriers are supplementing or replacing legacy (2G/3G) networks with 4G technologies. The Cisco Mobile VNI study now projects the growth and impact of 4G.

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