Video still causing mobile data traffic to shoot through the roof

Add some M2M into the mix... and trouble's coming

Currently, there are as many mobile subscriptions as people in the world, and every second, 20 new mobile broadband subscriptions are activated. This, and the increased video consumption on mobile devices, is pushing data consumption to new heights - mobile data traffic in Q3 2015 was 65 per cent higher than the previous year, according to Ericsson's latest version of its bi-annual Mobility Report."