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There will be 418 million netbook and laptop users in the world b...

There will be 418 million netbook and laptop users in the world by 2017, producing 1.8 exabytes of mobile data traffic a month, the Coda Research Consultancy said. An exabyte is two to the 16th power bytes, a billion…

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billion. The firm forecast mobile broadband revenue of more than $50 billion from netbook and laptop users by 2017, the Asia- Pacific region leading with 162 million users. Europe is expected to have 94 million users and North America 58 million. Many mobile broadband users will be using LTE connections. LTE users are expected to number 38 million in 2013 and 209 million by 2017. LTE uptake will be greatly skewed in the short to medium term toward European and North American markets, where revenue per user will be highest. China will also have significant adoption.