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?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @10:07AM
OK, let's do the calculation.
11.5 days is 276 hours. Let's say we've got a family of four, that's 89 hours per person; let's make that 90 hours for more easy calculation. Taking 30 days per month, this gives 3 hours per person and day. Certainly not impossible.
Assume 4K instead of 1080p (i.e. 4 times the data rate), and the limit is reached by four people watching 45 minutes per day each.