Smartphones have become omnipresent. Mobile Internet has become pervasive through cities, towns and villages. People catch up on their favorite TV shows while travelling, while waiting at the post office and while taking a stroll in the park. Mobile data has become the world’s most transacted commodity, and is on track to becoming a universal currency.

It is therefore not at all surprising that Mobile Internet has created a rich technology and services ecosystem of its own, worth more than a trillion dollars, as it continues to fascinate the human race and as businesses compete to outdo each other to claim a share of the growing, and lucrative mobile Internet market.

Within the USD600 billion Mobile Internet or mobile data market, as it is popularly known among consumers, one trend emerges stronger above all others – the consumption of rich content. High quality video, gaming and other interactive highly-graphical applications started recording phenomenal growth in their consumption, as mobile networks continue to improve speed and coverage on the back of new technologies such as 4G LTE and LTE Advanced, delivering such content seamlessly on today’s mobile devices.

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