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New Cisco Annual Internet Report Forecasts 5G to Support More Than 10% of Global Mobile Connections by 2023
18 Feb, 2020

News Summary:
By 2023:
- 5G Speeds will be 13 times higher than the Average Mobile Connection
- 66% of the global population will have Internet access – a WW Internet community of 5.3 billion people
- There will be nearly 30 billion devices/connections by 2023 – 45% of those will be mobile
- Average broadband speeds will rise from 46 Mbps to 110 Mbps
- Wi-Fi6 hotspots will grow 13-fold from 2020-2023 and will make up 11% of all public Wi-Fi hotspots
- More than 70 percent of the global population (5.7 billion people) will have mobile connectivity (2G, 3G, 4G or 5G).
- 66 percent of the global population (5.3 billion people) will be internet users.
- There will be 3.6 networked devices/connections per person and nearly 10 devices and connections per household.
- Nearly half (47%) of all devices and connections will be video capable.
- Machine-to-machine (M2M) connections that support a broad range of IoT applications will represent about 50% (14.7 billion) of total global devices and connections.
- 45% of all networked devices will be mobile-connected (3G and below, 4G, 5G or Low Power Wide Area [LPWA]) and 55% will be wired or connected over Wi-Fi.
- Global 5G connections will be 10.6% of total mobile connections, compared to 0.0% in 2018.
- By 2023, global LPWA connections will be 14.4% of total mobile connections, compared to 2.5% in 2018.
- Global Wi-Fi hotspots will grow four-fold from 2018 to 2023. There will be nearly 628 million global public Wi-Fi hotspots, up from 169 million in 2018.
- Global Wi-Fi6 hotspots will grow 13-fold from 2020 to 2023 and will be 11% of all public Wi-Fi hotspots.
- Average global mobile connection speeds will more than triple from 13 Mbps (2018) to 44 Mbps (2023).
- Average global Wi-Fi connection speeds will more than triple from 30 Mbps (2018) to 92 Mbps (2023).
- Average global fixed broadband speeds will more than double from 46 Mbps (2018) to 110 Mbps (2023).
- Globally, the frequency of DDoS attacks increased by 39%.
- Globally, the peak attack size increased 63%.
- The average DDoS attack size is 1 Gbps (23% of attacks are greater than 1 Gbps); there has been 776% growth in attacks between 100 Gbps and 400 Gbps.
- Cisco Annual Internet Report site
- Cisco Annual Internet Report White Paper
- Cisco Annual Internet Report FAQ
- Global, regional and country-level data and projections: Cisco Annual Internet Report Highlights Tool
- Regional and country-level Cisco Internet Readiness Tool
- Global and Regional Infographics
- Video: Cisco SVP/CTO Roland Acra discusses report’s strategic relevance