US Mobile Traffic Forecasts: 2009-2015

US Mobile Traffic Forecasts: 2009-2015

This report provides traffic forecasts across traffic types and across notebooks, netbooks and phones from 2009-2015, with an examination into drivers to
changes. Forecasts are around the following:
Video traffic
Music traffic
P2P traffic
Data traffic (including SMS and MMS)
Share of traffic for each of the above across notebooks, netbooks and phones


Headline forecasts
Traffic will rise from 15 TB (terabytes) per month in 2009, to 723 TB per month in 2015
Mobile phones will take up two thirds (68%) of this traffic in 2015
Video will form nearly two thirds (63%) of 3G/3G+ traffic in 2015

Included in this report
44 pages of commentary and forecasts
15 forecast and data charts

Contents
Explaining changes in US mobile traffic, and contextual data p4
Traffic: phones, and netbooks and notebooks combined p25
Traffic, divided by netbooks and notebooks p26
Traffic: percentage split across devices p27
Traffic by type, across all devices (TB per month) p28
Traffic type share p29
PHONE traffic by type (TB per month) p30
PHONE traffic type share p31
NETBOOK traffic by type (TB per month) p32
NETBOOK traffic type share p33
NOTEBOOK traffic by type (TB per month) p34
NOTEBOOK traffic type share p35
VIDEO traffic by device p36
DATA traffic by device p37
P2P traffic by device p38
MUSIC traffic by device p39


Methodology
This forecast uses data from a variety of sources, including published and unpublished forecasts and survey data. Forecasts entailed projecting behavior across traffic types and
projecting connections by type, data service take-up including mobile internet, data volumes, data speed and hours per month accessing and generating traffic, to produce mobile data
traffic projections.

Explaining changes in US mobile internet traffic, and contextual data p4
Traffic: phones, and netbooks and notebooks combined p25
Traffic, divided by netbooks and notebooks p26
Traffic: percentage split across devices p27
Traffic by type, across all devices (TB per month) p28
Traffic type share p29
PHONE traffic by type (TB per month) p30
PHONE traffic type share p31
NETBOOK traffic by type (TB per month) p32
NETBOOK traffic type share p33
NOTEBOOK traffic by type (TB per month) p34
NOTEBOOK traffic type share p35
VIDEO traffic by device p36
DATA traffic by device p37
P2P traffic by device p38
MUSIC traffic by device p39