We are on the verge of a nuclear data explosion. On Christmas day alone this year, 7 million combined Android and iPhones were activated, along with 240 million app downloads! The number of angry birds hurled that day must have been in the bizzilions. Staying on top of industry trends like this is of course a key part of my job, and looking through recent data, I’ve uncovered ten stats that reinforce the idea that device proliferation, increased spectrum and rise in wireless subscriptions are leading to massive increase in data consumption: 1.2 billion apps were downloaded during the 2011 holiday weekend; December 25-January 1 (breakdown by country from TechCrunch ) The U.S. accounted for nearly half of all downloads (509 million), followed by China (99 million) and then the UK (81 million). Then Canada, Germany, and France all came in at around 49 million. IMS Research predicts 1 billion smartphones will sell in 2016, up from 420 million in 2011. Ericsson predicts that there will be a combined eight billion mobile...