Broadband data upsurge tests network resilience globally: Ericsson’s Nitin Bansal

As per the Ericsson Mobility Report, November 2019 edition, mobile traffic is expected to grow by 27 percent annually between 2019 and 2025. Continuing with the recent trends, most of this will come from video traffic. Over the past few decades, every passing generation of cellular mobile connectivity has allowed us to enjoy enhanced content quality as well as the power of mobility with the ability to consume data anytime, anywhere for work, study and play. Video, which is increasingly being embedded in all forms of online content, has become the main driver for the exponential growth in mobile data traffic. Video traffic in mobile networks is forecast to grow by around 30 percent annually through to 2025, accounting for 75 percent of mobile data traffic from slightly more than 60 percent in 2019.

In addition, the current COVID-19 pandemic globally has led to another wave of data explosion as people all over the world are spending more time being at home under quarantine. The dramatic changes in human behavior patterns have caused measurable changes in the usage of both fixed and mobile networks worldwide. Even as increasingly more people are studying and working from home, online education, virtual training and virtual meetings and conferences are becoming the new reality. A new form of social interaction has appeared with both fixed and mobile broadband connectivity enabling a multitude of indoor entertainment activities as well as virtua