Global media and communications quarterly: Fall 2013

Broadband has changed everything and wireless broadband is changing everything all over again. With the estimated number of mobile connections worldwide in excess of 6 billion, mobile broadband has become the foundation for the next stage of Internet services, commerce, and innovation. The sheer volume of wireless data traffic is already astounding: global mobile data traffic in 2012 (885 petabytes per month) was nearly twelve times greater than the total global Internet traffic in 2000 (75 petabytes per month), according to Cisco’s recent Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update.