Worldwide mobile data traffic nearly tripled in 2010

Cisco has released a new report, titled Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2010–2015 (PDF), that explains what happened in mobile traffic during 2010 and tries to predict what will happen in 2015. Cisco is the largest provider of computer networking gear, so the company has an ongoing initiative to track and forecast the impact of visual networking applications on global networks.

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Even better. Price per MB for mobile data where I live nearly tripled in 2010 too.

This makes sense since Verizon only sells one phone with a qwerty keyboard that does not require a data package when you buy the phone. Every other phone that most people are going to get now requires a data package of some kind. Cellphone companies are basically forcing the increase in usage.