U.S. mobile communications data traffic growth of one-fold: mainly from the video

2013 U.S. mobile operators have processed 3.2EB data in Beijing June 18 Morning news, the United States Wireless Communications and Internet Association (CTIA) published in Tuesday, the U.S. mobile Communications Industry annual report shows that in 2013, the United States mobile operators to deal with data traffic doubled than 2012, A large portion of this is video traffic. CTIA's data showed that in 2013 the US mobile operator handled 3.2EB data (1EB about 1 billion GB), up 120% from 1.5EB in 2012. The data traffic for CTIA statistics is based on the authorized spectrum. The United States currently has 336 million mobile communications users. The data released by CTIA is equivalent to the average monthly 801MB data flow per user. A large portion of these data traffic is video. Although the CTIA did not investigate mobile video traffic, Cisco recently reported that 2.2EB of data from the US mobile network came from video last year. This is equivalent to using 563MB video traffic per user per month. CTIA's data also showed that U.S. users have a total of 218 billion minutes per month of mobile phone calls, an average of 650 minutes per user, the total number of messages sent to 153 billion, the average monthly 457 per user, the total number of multimedia messages sent 1 billion, the average per user monthly 30. On the operator side, with the construction of the 4G network, the network of US mobile operators continues to expand. By the end of 2013, the United States Mobile communications network included 304,360 base stations, the annual growth of 2,500. CTIA estimates that the mobile operator's annual capital expenditure is $33.1 billion trillion. (Lili)