Latin America. According to Cisco's new Annual Internet Report, 5G will support more than 10 percent of the world's mobile connections by 2023. The average speed of 5G will be 575 megabits per second, or 13 times faster than the average mobile connection. 5G will deliver more dynamic mobile infrastructures for AI, with advanced performance capabilities and emerging IoT applications, including autonomous cars, smart cities, connected health, immersive video, and more.
For the past 50 years, every decade it introduced a new mobile technology with cutting-edge innovations. Mobile bandwidth requirements have evolved from voice calls and text messages to ultra-high definition (UHD) video and a variety of augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) applications.
Consumers and business users around the world continue to create new demands and expectations for mobile networks. This ongoing trend is clearly highlighted by the adoption and use of mobile apps. Social media, video streaming and downloading, business productivity, e-commerce, and gaming will drive the continued growth of mobile apps with nearly 300 billion downloaded by 2023.
"What we're seeing in our research is a continued increase in Internet users, devices, connections and more demand on the network than we could have imagined," said Roland Acra, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Cisco. "The insights gained in our Annual Internet Report are helping global enterprises, governments and service providers prepare and secure networks for the continued growth of connections and applications. Strategic planning and partnerships will be essential for all organizations to capitalize on their innovations and technology investments."
Key Aspects of Cisco's Annual Internet Report (2018 – 2023)
Cisco's Annual Internet Report covers mobile, Wi-Fi and fixed broadband networks with quantitative projections on user, device and connection growth, as well as network performance and relevant trends over a five-year forecast period (2018-2023).
Global projections of Internet and mobile users for 2023
More than 70 percent of the world's population (5.7 billion people) will have mobile connectivity (2G, 3G, 4G or 5G).
66 percent of the world's population (5.3 billion people) will be internet users.
In Mexico it is estimated that there will be 85.6 million internet users by that date
Projections of global devices and connections for 2023
There will be 3.6 devices/network connections per person and nearly 10 devices and connections per household.
In Mexico there will be 3.2 devices per person
Nearly half (47%) of all devices and connections will be with video capabilities.
Machine-to-machine (M2M) connections that support a wide range of IoT (Internet of Things) applications will account for approximately 50 percent (14.7 billion) of total global devices and connections.
In Mexico, M2M modules will be equivalent to 43% of all connected devices.
Global mobile projections for 2023
45 percent of all networked devices will be connected to mobile devices (3G and under, 4G, 5G or Low Power Wide Area [LPWA]) and 55 percent will be wired or connected via Wi-Fi.
In Mexico, 44% of all network devices will be connected mobile and 56% will be wired or WiFi connections
Global 5G connections will be 10.6 percent of total mobile connections, up from 0.0 percent in 2018.
5G connections will be equivalent to 10.2% of total mobile connections
By 2023, global LPWA connections will be 14.4 percent of total mobile connections, up from 2.5 percent in 2018.
Global Wi-Fi Projections for 2023
Global Wi-Fi access points will quadruple from 2018 to 2023. There will be nearly 628 million public Wi-Fi hotspots globally, up from 169 million in 2018.
Global Wi-Fi6 access points will grow 13-fold from 2020 to 2023 and will be 11 percent of all public Wi-Fi hotspots.
Global network performance projections (mobile, Wi-Fi and fixed broadband) by 2023
The average speed of the global mobile connection will triple from 13 Mbps (2018) to 44 Mbps (2023).
Average global Wi-Fi connection speeds will triple from 30 Mbps (2018) to 92 Mbps (2023).
The global average fixed broadband speed will more than double, from 46 Mbps (2018) to 110 Mbps (2023).
