Up 60 per cent year-on-year.
Ericsson claims mobile data traffic will grow tenfold from 900 million this year to five billion in 2016.
That represents 60 per cent year-on-year growth, largely thanks to smartphone traffic that is predicted to triple in 2011, according to the report.
New smartphones, video viewings and apps are expected to drive data use and Ericsson believes smartphone traffic will increase 12-fold to reach approximately the same as mobile PC-generated traffic by 2016.
Further results say within five years 30 per cent of Earth's population will live in urban locations with over 1,000 people per square kilometre. This will account for less than one per cent of the world's total land area but it is still predicted to provide 60 per cent of mobile traffic.
The firm's calculations have been assembled over a number of years from networks worldwide.
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