Huge growth in global mobile data–PLDT

A top official of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) said that in 2012, global mobile data traffic grew by about 70 percent, or 12 times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000.

In his recent speech at the 9th Asian Carriers Conference (ACC), Napoleon Nazareno, president and chief executive officer of PLDT and Smart Communication Inc., said that, “Last year, global mobile data traffic grew 70 percent—nearly 12 times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000.”