“Akamai is out with its quarterly state of the Internet report as of the end of the second quarter of 2013,” Arik Hesseldahl reports for AllThingsD.
“One thing Akamai saw was an uptick in Web browser traffic from mobile devices. Akamai cited data from Ericcson saying that mobile data traffic doubled over the year-ago period,” Hesseldahl reports. “By comparison voice call traffic grew by only four percent during the same period.”
“Akamai also tracked which browser was in use,” Hesseldahl reports. “Across all networks (cellular and WiFi) Apple’s Safari on the iPhone and iPad [accounted] for about 60 percent of requests versus Android’s browser which was seen no more than 33 percent of the time.”
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