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Cisco Marvels At Mobile Data Explosion

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 newspaper.

No, that's no actually what mankind will be doing in 2015. Rather, according to Cisco, 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. They'll be an increase in wireless spend, too.

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