{"id":13323,"date":"2014-03-12T09:56:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T09:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13323"},"modified":"2014-03-12T09:56:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T09:56:46","slug":"sa-mobile-data-traffic-to-explode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13323","title":{"rendered":"SA mobile data traffic to explode"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mobile2\"<\/a>Mobile data traffic in South Africa is expected to have a compound annual growth of 53% in the next five years, according to a report.<\/p>\n

According to a forecast, it will reach an annual run rate of two exabytes (one quintillion bytes) by 2018.<\/p>\n

This is one of the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2013 to 2018, said ITWeb.<\/p>\n

The report also states that 60% of mobile connections in South Africa will be \u201csmart\u201d connections by 2018, up from 20% in 2013. Cisco also notes that by 2018, 33% of mobile traffic will be offloaded onto WiFi or small cell network.<\/p>\n

Craig Zeeman, director of transformation and service provider at Cisco SA said to ITWeb: \u201cSouth African mobile data traffic will continue its truly remarkable growth, increasing nearly eight-fold over the next five years and growing twice as fast as fixed IP traffic in South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n

Food will be heavily impacted by an increase in mobile data. More than 240 tons of food spoils each year during transit and storage alone.<\/p>\n

If organisations used mobile data to keep better track of trucks and the temperature of storage facilities, they would save enough food to feed 40 million people.<\/p>\n

In developed countries:<\/p>\n