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on Thursday January 24 2019, @07:12AM
from the B-b-b-b-but-Information-Wants-to-be-FREE! dept.
from the B-b-b-b-but-Information-Wants-to-be-FREE! dept.
1TB `Power Users' Double to 4.12% of All Households:
According to OpenVault, both average and median data usage for year end 2018 increased when compared with year end 2017 statistics. Importantly, the rate of growth for median usage continued to far exceed the growth rate for average usage, indicating that consumption is growing across service providers' entire subscriber bases, rather than only among heavy users.
OpenVault's year end 2018 data showed that:
- Average usage for all households was 268.7GB/HH in 2018, up from 226.4GB/HH at the end of June 2018 and a 33.3% increase over the YE 2017 average of 201.6GB/HH.
- Median usage was 145.2GB/HH in 2018, up from 116.4GB/HH in June 2018 and a 40% increase over the YE 2017 median of 103.6GB/HH.
- The percentage of power users – defined as those households using 1TB or more – almost doubled in 2018, rising to 4.12% of all households from 2.11% in 2017, while the percentage of households exceeding 250GB rose to 36.4% from 28.4% during the same timespan.
How much data do YOU use each month?
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2, Disagree) by isostatic on Thursday January 24 2019, @09:01AM (1 child)
All our TV viewing is via internet (netflix, iplayer, amazon). All our radio is via internet (tunein). I work from home, as does my wife.
Our maximum download in a single day averaged 3mbit, or about 30GB over the 24 hour period. Average is about 6GB a day, or 200GB a month.
Passing 1TB/month, or 30GB a day, is not in any way normal for a 'somewhat active person'.
However median usage of 145GB a year? Or 400MB a day? That sounds pitiful. I could believe median usage of 145GB a month, or even 50GB a month (600GB a year), but 145 a year? You're having a laugh.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @09:58AM
Wow, you download only up to three millibits per day? That makes about one bit per year! ISPs must love you! :-)
No, wait, now I get it: You don't speak about the amount of data, but the amount of information in that data! ;-)