The
Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic for 2012 to 2017
has projected that mobile users in the Africa and Middle East region is
expected to increase to 849,226,090 by 2017. The VNI report said in MEA, mobile
data traffic will grow 17-fold from 2012 to 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.
The
VNI report said in MEA, mobile data traffic will grow 17-fold from 2012 to
2017.
Cisco
Business Development Manager, Emerging Africa, Bola Adegbonmire said:
“By
2017, global mobile data traffic will continue its truly remarkable growth,
increasing 13-fold over the next five years, to reach an amount more than 46
times the total amount of mobile IP traffic just a few years ago in 2010. With
such dramatic adoption, we are rapidly approaching the time when nearly every
network experience will be a mobile one and, more often than not, a visual one
as well. This
trend is a result of the seemingly insatiable demand by consumers and
businesses in the Middle East and Africa to achieve the benefits gained when
connecting people, data, and things in an Internet of Everything.”
The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data
Traffic Forecast Update is part of the comprehensive Cisco VNI Forecast,
an ongoing initiative to track and forecast the impact of visual
networking applications on global networks.
Highlights of the 2017 Cisco VNI for Middle East and Africa (MEA):
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.
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
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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What this means is that mobile broadband will be the winning strategy in the telecom space in this region, and will yield the highest return on investment now and in the future. And yet our own NCC is delaying the issuance of license and sell of the 2.6Ghz frequency spectrum required for 4G. The same thing goes for Ghana's NCA even after the trial in 2010, they are yet to issue the license. These authorities are not even encouraging investment in national fiber networks except for Kenya and South Africa region. It has been said that for every 10% increase in broadband penetration there is a 1.3% increase in economic growth. Broadband services affect and will boost all sectors of the economy including health, education, agriculture, businesses etc.
ReplyDeleteHowever its encouraging to know that Angola, South Africa and Tanzania have released the spectrum for 4G and issued licenses for same. Presently there are deployment of 4G infrastructures in these countries.