Global Internet phenomena statistics

By Peter Wolchak
June 21, 2012

  • audio and video streaming will exceed 60 per cent of North America’s mobile data by late 2014
  • YouTube is the largest source of mobile video traffic, accounting for as much as 25 per cent of network data and no less than 12 per cent
  • video and audio streaming make up more than half of mobile data traffic in North America, led by YouTube, Pandora and Netflix
  • instant messaging applications like WhatsApp are eating into SMS revenue; for example, on an Asian mobile network serving one million subscribers, an average of 7.6 million WhatsApp messages were sent daily
Source: Sandvine’s Global Internet Phenomena Report


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