When the world’s mobile industry gathered at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, their behaviour gave us an insight into how we might be using our devices in the future. Learn about wi-fi was used and data was consumed at Mobile World Congress (MWC). Take a look at this infographic that highlights some data points. Tweet us @CiscoSPMobility if you have any questions. Visit http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/service-provider/service-provider-wi-fi/index.html for more information.

1. 33% of traffic was used
for secure connections
to business services
such as email
Followed by
web browsing,
Skype, Google
& Facebook
Provide a Glimpse of
Our Future
When the world’s mobile industry gathered at
Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, their
behaviour gave us an insight into how we might
be using our devices in the future
Mobile Industry Leaders
Mobile thought leaders use Wi-Fi more in the first hour
of MWC 2014 than over the whole of last year’s event
Apple took the
overall lead
with OSX and
iOS combined
representing 45%
of all devices
The Devices to be Seen With at MWC
Laptops still represent almost half of device numbers - so much for predictions that smartphones would make them obsolete!
280 Gigabytes: the
largest single upload
by an individual
The Venue
1.2Gigabytes per
second of Internet
traffic at its peak
19.1Terabytesoftotal
traffic transmitted
280GB
4pm on day two –
peak time for data traffic
(the same as last year!)
10
11
2
1
8
7 5
4
3
6
9
12
5GHz (58%)
outnumbered
2.4GHz devices
(42%) this year
5GHz
2.4GHz
80,880 unique
devices connected
to the Cisco
Wi-Fi network
20 years: the total time devices spent
connected to the Internet during MWC
devices
connected
daily
45,000
240,000 -square
meters of high
performance Wi-Fi
Sources:
Cisco, MWC Wi-Fi network analytics, February 2014 and February 2013
Cisco, Visual Networking Index, Global Mobile Data Traffic: Forecast Update 2013-18, February 2014
22,126 peak
concurrent users
BlackBerry devices accounted
for 0.01% of Wi-Fi traffic
Android (15%) outnumbered
iOS mobile device traffic (10%)
Wi-Fi internet
traffic up by 300%
Connecting The Mobile Industry
Data was largely split between business and social communications
Mobile Social is Personal Even at Work
Facebook took a 71% share
of all social
media sessions
Twitter was
used for 25%
LinkedIn trailed
behind at 4%
Social networks shared MWC with the world
50%drop
in social
networking
during
Facebook
CEO Mark
Zuckerberg’s
keynote
Data Consumption off the Charts
The Cisco Wi-Fi network supported an unprecedented level of data consumption
Stand out statistics from MWC 2014
Record Wi-Fi data usage
The number of connected
devices up by 76%
Average 250MB used per
device up from 110MB in 2013
110MB
250MB
2013 2014
81,000
attendees
from 75
countries
19.1Terabytes of
data used, up by 45%
2013 2014
50
0
10
20
30
40
percentage%
devices (by traffic)
OSX iOSWindows BlackberryAndroid Linux
71%
25%
4%
Android devices represented
the largest percentage by
operating system (41%)
50
0
10
20
30
40
percentage%
devices (by OS)
Android OSX iOS OthersWindows