Cisco Systems released a forecast this week noting that the volume of data crossing U.S. mobile networks will grow almost eight-fold by 2018, and demand for Internet-connected devices will also skyrocket. U.S. consumers will download and upload more data on their smartphones in 2018 than they did on their laptops in 2013, according to a forecast by Cisco Systems Inc. Americans will continue to lead the world as earlier and faster converts to new smart devices and networks, the Cisco report said. “It’s more people, more connections, faster speeds on the networks and then more rich content, which in this case is video, video, video,” Robert Pepper, Cisco’s vice president for global technology policy, told Reuters. With an increase in data consumption, we’ll need a reliable wireless infrastructure to handle the demand. The need for tower construction companies and crews isn’t going away anytime soon, the more mobile data we consume the more towers we will need.
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