Cisco's annual Internet survey forecasts trends set to impact global Internet adoption, device/connection availability, as well as network performance. Among the trends highlighted, Cisco predicts 5G will represent more than 10 percent of global mobile interactions by the year 2023.
In the U.S., there are a few early 5G adopters. Verizon and T-Mobile are two examples. Outside the U.S., Chinese manufacturer Huawei continues to challenge the limited 5G bandwidth the U.S. faces, and some would say the U.S. is losing the race to outfit its mobile networks with faster speeds.
Despite insufficient foundation and bandwidth, the U.S. and other countries are still rolling out 5G networks, meaning for those with access to 5G, they will see faster Internet, download, and connectivity speeds.
5G Adaption in the United States
By 2023, more than 70 percent, nearly six billion people in the U.S.), will have mobile connectivity via 2G, 3G, 4G or 5G, according to the report. It says, global average broadband speeds reached 45.9 Mbps in 2018, and in 2023, they should reach 110 Mbps.
The number of devices per household will see a bump as well, and rise to ten per house. Nearly half of the devices will be video-capable and support roughly 15 billion machine-to-machine interactions for IoT apps.
All this has massive implications for the future of work, remote work, and digital transformation in the U.S. Let's dive into Cisco's survey to see what else the collaboration giant found.
5G Adaption Across the United Kingdom
Shifting gears to the UK, Cisco predicts by 2023, nearly 64 million Internet users. At 93 percent of the UK's population, this is up from 60 million or 89 percent of the UK population in 2018. According to Cisco, the UK will have 719 million networked devices by 2023. That's up from 415 million in 2018.
Cisco's report said the UK will have almost 11 networked devices per capita by the year 2023, up from seven percent per capita in 2018, three percent of which will consist of connected devices. In 2018, that number was two.
