Exponential Growth of Mobile Data Due To Proliferation Of Smart Phones

In just one year, global mobile data traffic doubled, and largely for one reason, the number and type of smartphones now in use. Growth patterns “reveal that the quality of a smartphone affects which applications people use and the length of time they surf the mobile Internet,” according to a new report.
 
An active smartphone user, according to the study, uses more than one megabyte per day, although the top five to 10 percent of users watch more than 40 minutes of video per day and drive up the average. The study also determined “that in North America, high-end smartphones generate twice the traffic than comparable smartphones at the operators analyzed in Asia and Europe.”

High-End Smartphones Drive Mobile Data Traffic Growth (Communications Technology website, Oct. 14, 2011)