According to the annual Visual Networking Index report released by Cisco Systems on Tuesday, the next five years will continue to witness a notable increase in the worldwide use of mobile Internet; with the rate of increase being nearly 66 percent each year.

With an increasing number of people all across the world using more and more devices which are connected to one another and to the Internet, the Cisco report said that the number of connected devices will apparently surpass the number of human beings this year.

Going by the statistics shared in the Cisco report, there will be approximately 5.2 billion people using mobile handsets by the year 2017; thereby marking a notable increase over 4.3 billion mobile-phone users last year. Moreover, in five years' time, there will also be nearly 1.7 billion connected machines, including anything from a home appliance to a car.

As per the report, the surge in mobile Internet traffic, over the next few years, will essentially be an upshot of the fact that the users of mobile devices are carrying out more functions throughout the day over wireless gadgets.

Projecting the worldwide mobile traffic to increase to134 exabytes in 2017, the Cisco report said that, by the mentioned year, the average mobile user will view 10 hours of video and listen to 15 hours of music. In addition, an average of five video calls will be made by the mobile users, who will also download around 15 apps every month.