Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2010–2015

Global mobile data traffic grew 2.6-fold in 2010, nearly tripling for the third year in a row. The 2010 mobile data traffic growth rate was higher than anticipated. Last year's forecast projected that the growth rate would be 149 percent. This year's estimate is that global mobile data traffic grew 159 percent in 2010.

Last year's mobile data traffic was three times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. Global mobile data traffic in 2010 (237 petabytes per month) was over three times greater than the total global Internet traffic in 2000 (75 petabytes per month).

Average smartphone usage doubled in 2010. The average amount of traffic per smartphone in 2010 was 79 MB per month, up from 35 MB per month in 2009.

Smartphones represent only 13 percent of total global handsets in use today, but they represent over 78 percent of total global handset traffic. In 2010, the typical smartphone generated 24 times more mobile data traffic (79 MB per month) than the typical basic-feature cell phone (which generated only 3.3 MB per month of mobile data traffic).

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Google beats Facebook to one billion users

May 2011 saw Google become the first internet company to have one billion unique users in a single month. Google had the pleasure of beating rivals Facebook to this memorable milestone.

The statistic includes all the websites in the Google stable, which includes Google.com, YouTube.com and Gmail. The result is an 8.4% increase over the same period last year. Microsoft remained at number 2 with 905 million users, with Facebook in 3rd place with 714 million, in itself a year on year 30% increase.