Historically, mobile network bandwidth has lagged at least an order of magnitude or two orders of magnitude behind consumer fixed network bandwidth, even as average capabilities across all platforms have grown.
Oddly enough, mobile platform bandwidth might already be on an improvement curve that rivals--or even exceeds--rates of improvement for fixed network access.
Even with the advent of gigabit fixed network Internet access service, which improves performance by an order of magnitude, mobile bandwidth might, by the early 2020s, have improved as much as two orders of magnitude.
That will be the result of fifth generation networks using millimeter wave frequencies, initially offering an order of magnitude increase over the fastest Long Term Evolution 4G networks, and undoubtedly more than that over the 5G platform life cycle.
By the time 5G has finished its lifecycle, routine speeds of 10 Gbps per device should be expected.
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