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posted by mrpg on Thursday January 24 2019, @07:12AM   Printer-friendly
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: 2) by Apparition on Thursday January 24 2019, @06:20PM (1 child)

    by Apparition (6835) on Thursday January 24 2019, @06:20PM (#791349) Journal

    I live in a household of three adults. We use an average of 2.5 terabytes per month.

    We cut the cable cord fourteen months ago. Now we stream everything. One television is on about 20 hours a day, streaming video at a minimum of 720p at 60 FPS. Then there is a second television that is used a couple of hours per day on average, also streaming video at a minimum of 720p at 60 FPS. When we watch movies, we tend to stream them in 4K Ultra HD, which is about five or six hours per week.

    Then there are the 75 gigabyte video game downloads, multiple five gigabyte video game patches, streaming music and podcastas nearly nine hours a day, occasional backups to Nextcloud...

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  • (Score: 2) by Apparition on Thursday January 24 2019, @06:39PM

    by Apparition (6835) on Thursday January 24 2019, @06:39PM (#791367) Journal

    I forgot to mention that I work from home two days a week, and that my family and my sister's family video conference in 1080p about four hours per week on average. Personally, I would prefer telephone calls but my nephews insist on video calls as that is what they are growing up on.