LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 28, 2026--
Data traffic from cellular IoT connections is expected to rise to 218.6 exabytes (EB) by 2035, according to Omdia ’s latest research. This increase is fueled by a growing demand for data that can be analyzed, with the goal of improving operational efficiency and creating new revenue opportunities for businesses.
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The research revealed that the majority of cellular IoT data traffic will come from the automotive sector, with key use cases including infotainment services such as video and audio streaming, as well as firmware over-the-air updates. Over the forecast between 2025 to 2035, automotive data traffic will rise from 30.7 EB to 135.4 EB, driven by the integration of infotainment systems in newer vehicles and rising consumer adoption of these services, many of which are expected to rely on 5G connectivity. According to the report, transport and logistics are poised to become the next major sector for cellular IoT data traffic, while all other sectors combined will contribute less than 29% of the total traffic beyond 2025.
Alexander Thompson, Senior Analyst for IoT at Omdia stated, “The rising number of vehicles with smart features, particularly infotainment, will cause cellular IoT data traffic to boom over the next decade. Other video-based use cases will also generate significant amounts of data.”
“While cellular IoT data traffic remains dominated by use cases that require mobility, such as automotive and logistics, emerging trends like remote vision, which enables cameras to be added in a wide range of devices, from delivery robots to industrial machinery, and agentic AI, driving growth in peer-to-peer machine traffic, are increasing demand for greater edge processing power and accelerating 5G adoption. Together, these trends are creating additional data traffic demand that did not exist several years ago," added Andrew Brown, Practice Lead for IoT at Omdia.
The report also emphasizes that Asia & Oceania will produce the highest amount of cellular IoT data traffic, comprising 50.6% of global cellular IoT data traffic in 2025. The region has traditionally been an early adopter of new technology and also has a significant number of video cameras installed, which will help drive traffic growth.
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Total IoT data traffic by vertical, 2023-2035
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces more heat Tuesday over his appointment of Peter Mandelson as U.K. ambassador to the United States, with lawmakers set to vote on whether Starmer should be investigated by a parliamentary standards watchdog over the ill-fated decision.
Starmer’s former chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, is due to testify to a group of legislators investigating how Mandelson, a scandal-tainted friend of Jeffrey Epstein, was given the key diplomatic job despite failing security checks.
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee will quiz McSweeney on Tuesday morning, before the whole house debates a demand by the opposition Conservative Party for Parliament’s Privileges Committee to investigate Starmer’s explanations of how Mandelson came to be appointed.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said that Starmer had “misled the House of Commons repeatedly” when he said that “full due process” was followed over Mandelson’s appointment.
It's a potentially dangerous day for Starmer, who has spent weeks fending off calls to resign over the Mandelson saga. Starmer fired Mandelson in September after new details emerged about the ambassador's friendship with Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019.
Police opened an investigation into Mandelson in February over allegations that he passed on sensitive government information to Epstein when he was a member of the U.K. government in 2009.
McSweeney, a protégé of Mandelson who served as Starmer’s top aide, resigned in February, saying he took responsibility for appointing him as ambassador. He's certain to be asked about allegations by Olly Robbins, the former top civil servant at the Foreign Office, that Starmer’s staff pressured officials to rush through the confirmation so that Mandelson could be in the post at the start of the second term of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Ian Collard, the senior security official who briefed Robbins on the security checks, also said that there was “pressure to deliver a rapid outcome,” though he said that it didn't affect his judgment.
Starmer has denied that anyone in his office put pressure on the civil service.
The prime minister fired Robbins earlier this month after the revelation that Mandelson was approved for the job against the recommendation of the government’s security vetting agency. Starmer has called it “staggering” that Foreign Office officials failed to tell him about the security concerns.
Critics say Starmer’s decision to appoint Mandelson in the first place is evidence of bad judgment by a prime minister who has made repeated missteps since he led the center-left Labour Party to a landslide election victory in July 2024.
Starmer already defused one potential crisis in February, when some Labour lawmakers urged him to quit over the Mandelson appointment. He could face a new challenge if, as expected, Labour takes a hammering in local and regional elections on May 7, which give voters a chance to pass a midterm verdict on the government.
It would require a large number of Labour lawmakers to vote with the opposition on Tuesday for Starmer to be referred to the Privileges Committee, which has the power to suspend lawmakers, including the prime minister, from Parliament, for breaches of the rules.
Starmer urged Labour lawmakers to “stick together” and vote against the motion, calling it a “stunt” timed to damage the government before the May elections.
Censure by the committee exerts considerable moral pressure on politicians to resign. Its investigation into lockdown-breaking gatherings in government offices during the COVID-19 pandemic helped end the political career of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Johnson quit as a lawmaker in 2023 after the committee found that he had repeatedly misled Parliament over the “Partygate” scandal.
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech in north-west England, Britain, Monday, April 27, 2026. (Temilade Adelaja/Pool Photo via AP)
