Washington: Networking experts have warned that mobile devices will soon crowd out the internet. Cisco reports that by 2018, mobile data could grow 11 times in the next four years, reaching 18 exabytes(1 exabyte is equal to 1 billion gigabytes) per month.
According to PC World, mobile data traffic is expected to grow by 61% annually into 2018, with the extra traffic from 2017, expected to be triple the entire mobile Internet in 2013. Cisco said the number of mobile users could shoot up to 5 billion by 2018 in comparison to 4.1 bn in 2013 with more than 10 bn mobile-ready devices. By 2018, mobile video will account for 69% of all mobile data against 53% in 2013.