The average monthly data usage per wireless subscriber will increase to 2,289 megabytes by 2019 from 445 megabytes in 2014.

ABI Research expects the global mobile data upload traffic to increase from 6,860 petabytes to over 60,000 petabytes by 2019.

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Two important factors will support the growth in wireless data usage. Several telecom operators are looking at enhancing the upload and download speeds with the support of telecom network vendors such as Ericsson, Huawei, etc.

Mobile data traffic will grow substantially considering the fact that global telecom operators such as China Mobile and Ooredoo achieved 300 Mbps uplink and 3.8 Gbps downlink speed.

Applications such as Facebook, YouTube, BitTorrent, and Gmail constitute a major part of the mobile data upload traffic.

Africa and Latin America will experience the highest increase in mobile upload traffic, albeit from a small base.

Real-time entertainment in the form of video and TV streaming remains the largest contributor. The percentage of mobile data download attributed to video and TV streaming will increase from 50 percent to more than 70 percent in 2019.

Baburajan K
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