About 40 percent of mobile phones sold in...
About 40 percent of mobile phones sold in Q3 were smartphones, Ericsson said Wednesday in a mobility report. Mobile data traffic doubled year-over-year from 2011, and Ericsson forecasts the amount of traffic will grow twelvefold between 2012 and 2018. That…
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growth will come mainly from increased video consumption, Ericsson said. Video is already the top contributor to mobile traffic, comprising 25 percent of total smartphone traffic and 40 percent of total tablet traffic, it said. “Expectations of mobile-network quality have been elevated by the availability of smartphones and tablets that have changed the way we use the Internet,” Douglas Gilstrap, Ericsson’s head of strategy, said in a news release. Total mobile subscriptions will reach 6.6 billion by the end of 2012 and are forecast to grow to 9.3 billion by the end of 2018, Ericsson said. LTE coverage was available to an estimated 455 million people globally as of the middle of this year, Ericsson said (http://xrl.us/bn27cz).