Mobile internet to trump the world wide web?

Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services - think apps - are less about the searching and more about the getting. Ericsson predicts continued growth in mobile subscriptions and traffic over the coming years. During 2014 alone, 800 million smartphone subscriptions were added worldwide. It took over five years to reach the first billion smartphone subscriptions, a milestone that was reached in 2012, and less than two years to reach the second billion

Surging Mobile Broadband Demand

The growth in mobile data traffic is being driven by the rise of mobile data subscriptions, along with a continued increase in average data volume per subscription, though there are large differences in traffic levels between markets, regions and operators.