By 2015, people will send 26 times more mobile data than they do now,
The Los Angeles Times reports, citing Cisco's annual Global
Mobile Traffic Forecast. "That's the equivalent of every man, woman and child on Earth sending 1,000 text messages every second," Suraj Shetty, Cisco's VP of worldwide service provider marketing,
tells The Times. No, that's no actually what mankind will be doing in 2015. Rather, according to Cisco, two-thirds of that data traffic will come from mobile video, as more people begin making video
calls, sending each other clips they've recorded, and watching longer-form television and movies on their cellphones and tablets, The Times reports. Thank for heavens, the growth of mobile networks
will come with an increase in wireless speeds, too. As The Times points out, the global average is currently about 200 kilobits per second, but as more so-called "4G networks" are set up, the average
will increase by a factor of 10, to about 2.2 megabits per second. By 2015 Cisco predicts most of the mobile traffic will still come from laptops and netbooks -- 56% -- while smart phones will account
for about 27%, and tablets only about 3.5% of the traffic growth.