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Canada’s mobile network operators are quickly finding out that Canadians have a near insatiable appetite for mobile data.

As more and more Canadians upgrade to 4G smartphones, the volume of data travelling across the mobile networks of Canada’s largest telecom and cable companies is growing at furious rate, according to new data from Cisco Systems Inc.

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Indeed, over the next five years, mobile data traffic in Canada is expected to jump 762%, from 28.6 petabytes (PB) per month to 246.8 petabytes in 2018 (a petabyte is equivalent to roughly one million gigabytes).

To put that in perspective, that’s equivalent to about 62 million DVDs per month, or 680 million text messages per second funnelling through Canada’s mobile networks.

Cisco’s data shows Canadians’ growing appetite for ultra fast smartphones and how Canada’s mobile network operators will be under the gun to continue to expand the capacity of their operations as users demand faster speeds and the ability to do more with their smartphones and tablets.