In 2021, the global annual cellular data usage is projected to reach roughly *** thousand petabytes (PB), with approximately *** thousand petabytes coming from the use of mobile handsets, in other words, mobile phones. Tablets and cellular IoT devices currently do not compare to mobile phones in terms of data usage, but they are expected to grow in the upcoming years.
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