1、THE GLOBAL INTERNET PHENOMENA REPORT JANUARY 2023How have the past two years changed us?The Big 6 now led by Netflix Video permeates,streaming dominatesThe Rise of the Super AppMobile is reshaping app usageTelecom reaching inflection pointSPOTLIGHTSQUIC is here to stayFIFA World Cup:are sports the n

2、ext frontier for streaming?A word from Sandvine CEO Lyn Cantor Apps have become extensions of ourselves,helping us navigate all aspects of life,whether our connections to others,our health,our education,our work,our happiness through escapism and entertainment.The average person spends as much as 5

3、hours per day on mobile apps,in addition to those they use at work or in learning,which can bring the total time on apps to as much as 7 or 8 hours per day.Applications are therefore becoming a manifestation of all that operators do to build and optimize their networks.Customer satisfaction is inext

4、ricably tied to application quality of experience(App QoE).This is why we are committed to App QoE,becoming Sandvine,the App QoE company.For the purposes of this report,we tap into what makes us the App QoE experts:advanced heuristics and machine learning to classify network traffic by application,a

5、s well as by the content within those applications(as youll see on pages 10-15).By calculating throughput at 250ms intervals,we“score”App QoE through the lens of 10 app categories,which we stratify on pages 12-14 and in our regional trends,starting on page 27.By examining the volumetric trends withi

6、n each category,we reveal which individual applications are exerting the most pressure on networks.We can see that this year,in H1 2022,eight of the top-10 apps by volume are based on video,and we further identify the biggest culprits,such as Netflix,YouTube(and its QUIC traffic),Disney,TikTok and o