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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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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @09:29AM (7 children)
Just that - what is an "HH"?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Magic Oddball on Thursday January 24 2019, @10:28AM
I was confused by that as well, but my guess is that it's supposed to mean "household."
(Score: 2) by rigrig on Thursday January 24 2019, @10:31AM
My guess would be "HouseHold", and these figures indicating total traffic over the whole year?
No one remembers the singer.
(Score: 1) by messymerry on Thursday January 24 2019, @12:11PM (2 children)
I wnet to the article, and looked high and low and HH does not come up in association with data usage. HouseHold seems a reasonable guess to me, butt, I am old and we were taught to never use and acronym without letting our dear readers know what it meant.
What has happened to "good manners in writing?"
;-D
Only fools equate a PhD with a Swiss Army Knife...
(Score: 2, Informative) by woodcruft on Thursday January 24 2019, @12:32PM (1 child)
It's not only good manners but common sense.
If it's not an SI unit & in particular if it's not one in common usage then say what the hell it is.
The reader is left to speculate what "HH" stands for. If it's for 'household', then for what time period? We have to have a guess there too.
All TFA has done is just left me annoyed at having bothered to read it. Complete waste of bytes.
:wq!
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday January 24 2019, @06:19PM
Worry not, those good forms were discarded on the road to l33t and txt speak.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @02:18PM
Heil Hitler
(Score: 2) by jb on Friday January 25 2019, @05:58AM
In the metric system "H" stands for "Henry", a unit of inductance. Therefore "HH" must mean "square Henry".
"Gigabytes per square Henry" strikes me as a rather odd unit to choose though. Is there really any meaningful relationship between the inductance of an end user and how much bandwidth he consumes?
Reproducing those results might make a fun research project...