Report: Average American Will Use 22GB of Mobile Data Per Month In 2021 (mashable.com) 104
An anonymous reader writes: According to Ericsson's latest Mobility Report, it's predicted that the average American smartphone subscriber will use 22GB of mobile data by the end of 2021. The report shows the explosion of mobile data consumption, with mobile traffic growing 60-percent between 2015 and 2016. It's forecasted that Western Europeans will use about 18GB per month per subscriber, while subscribers in the Asia Pacific region will use up about 7GB per month, even though it will have the largest share of mobile data traffic in 2021. The report claims smartphone subscriptions will overtake non-smartphone subscriptions in the third quarter of 2016. In 2021, 95-percent of all phones in North America will be smartphones. Fast 5G networks, which should start to be commercially deployed in 2020, will be able to handle the increased traffic and reach 150 million subscribers globally by the end of 2021. As for Internet of Things devices, the number of which will quadruple to 16 billion globally by 2021.
Extrapolating (Score:5, Insightful)
My friend had given birth to 0 kids last month. She had 1 this month. By January of 2021, linear extrapolation shows that she will have over 50 kids.
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tethering?
I have ADSL on 50GB a month and there are months I use less than half that.
it might be cheaper just to ditch wired broadband if the price of mobile data comes down.
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Really 50GB? Hello 2005, welcome to 2016. Yep we have a black president.
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Sorry, I should have mentioned I'm in Australia, the home of fraudband (NBN).
one *can* pay an additional $20 a month for a terabyte a month.
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How do you keep your data usage so low? I hit 300gb every month.
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Well I'm not (currently) writing code, so downloading 10s of gigabytes of github repos isn't an issue either. :)
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Because I don't torrent and I don't have a netflix subscription.
I watch 1/2 hr tv shows a couple of times a week and the occasional movie on catchup through our multi-cultural broadcaster SBS but aside from watching a few youtube clips that's about it.
The NBN hasn't come to my area yet and I'm hoping the incoming Labor govt will builld fibre-to-the-premises and not the 25mbps schmozzle the current government are offering.
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I think you have buckleys of having the next government built FTTP no matter who wins. Labor have already said they are not going to.
Outside of that I burn through more that 25gb a month in backups. I have no idea what youtube sends me but it's a lot. And even though I never get to play them I seem to like installing steam games so that chews through heaps as well.
NBN isn't schedule to me for at least the next 3 years, but I'm lucky and really close to my RIM so I have a cable length us 47m. I actually
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How do you keep your data usage so low? I hit 300gb every month.
On what? I use about 50GB which covers the entire family's web/email/youtube/spotify/gaming, as well as a few torrents (we're not big TV watchers, but get through a few each week).
I have friends who hoard thousands of 1080p movies and boxsets that they never watch, but they are hardly representative of your average users.
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Then your family is extremely lightweight in its internet usage.
We're not extreme in any way by swedish standards, and we use on average ca 280GiB/month down and 80GiB/month up on the non-work VLAN.
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Then your family is extremely lightweight in its internet usage.
Or maybe you are just a bandwidth hog?
What is all this data you are downloading? Outside of crap TV and movies there really isn't much else on the Internet for regular people.
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Not really, there are plenty of families that use even more.
As for what we're using the internet for? Well, it's several hours of streaming every day, including news, documentaries and educational. Often multiple HD streams going at the same time. It's gaming, with Steam, GOG etc. It's backups. It's video calls with grand parents. It's sending photos and videos back and forth with family members. It's updates for multiple OS's and applications.
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Not really, there are plenty of families that use even more.
Yeah but it's not the norm. I have ISP experience, so can assure you that 300GB/month is most definitely in the high range.
As for what we're using the internet for? Well, it's several hours of streaming every day
You should get out more.
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2 Kids with tablets probably eat 50GB in youtube videos....
I have metered uploads though. So backups chew through a fair bit. My wife takes a stupid number of videos and photos and those are always uploading. Torrents play a small part but not huge. I have a number of streaming video services I use as well.
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2 Kids with tablets probably eat 50GB in youtube videos....
Maybe your kids should get out more? That much screen time can't be healthy...
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It's streaming video that will do it. If you throw Twitch streams on for a few hours in the background while working/whatever, it can easily get there.
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Seems to be an odd complaint, why do people love watching screens so much?
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Lol, who's complaining? Like I said, outside of things I actually follow regularly, it's nice to just have some background noise while doing something else.
Re: Extrapolating (Score:2)
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Sorry, I should have mentioned I'm in Australia, the home of fraudband (NBN).
To be fair, it should have been obvious from your username.
Is $20 AUD(?)/month to upgrade to 1TB that bad? I guess it would depend on how much you're already paying. Is that the only jump: 50GB -> 1TB? I'd be curious how your service/price compares to mine (Canada). I've certainly heard the "horror" stories of terrible Australian internet...
I'm paying $75 CAD for 30Mbps and 300GB. If I wanted to get more data, the next plan up is $95 for 60Mbps and 450GB. Since the bandwidth increase is kinda BS (you nev
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It depends on the ISP. Cheapest, and not necessarily most reliable for 1TB is around $AU70 not including landline rental on ADSL2+ at about 15Mbps. ;(
Then the government, as you've probably read on here, decided to neuter the NBN rollout to 25Mbps, which is hardly worth the effort.
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Honestly, I'm pretty ignorant of this topic, lol. Never heard of the NBN until you mentioned it in the GGP. My curiosity has piqued though so I'll read up on it a bit.
Again, what you're describing (15Mbps/1TB @ $70 AUD) doesn't sound that bad. It's a bit expensive for the bandwidth, but like I said before the data cap is better than mine and I pay about the same (AUD and CAD are near par). I guess since you didn't include the "landline rental" fee then it might be a lot worse. Obviously I can't comment on t
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tethering?
I have ADSL on 50GB a month and there are months I use less than half that.
it might be cheaper just to ditch wired broadband if the price of mobile data comes down.
Why would data rates come down. Typically, they will get you with introductory low rates, but once you are addicted, the rates go up.
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My plan gives me 20GB/month, with rate limiting, not overage fees, after that. It also includes free international calling to over 70 countries, 2 extra incoming numbers from the countries of my choice (to facilitate extra-nationals calling me on what is to them a local number), unlimited local SMS and a second local number I can give out to people I don't care about. And I pay about $26 USD/month.
Glad I don't live in a first-world country such as the US or Canada.
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Dang. 50 kids! Gettin' jiggy wid it.
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I use my phone a fair bit and never go over my 1.5GB quota. As much as the marketers would like us to be streaming HDTV to our phones, I've never ever seen anyone do it. A phone is good for calls and a few casual apps, but most people most of the time won't be using them as PC replacements.
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Same here. My wife and I have the lowest tier Verizon data plan (1GB shared) and haven't exceeded the allotment a single time in four years. But then, neither of us is fond of spending a lot of time hunched over a tiny screen watching video.
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I find it hard to believe people in the USA will ever get to 22GB / month. It will be a very slow climb - since AT&T and Verizon will slow everyone down - traffic growth will be unable to achieve this rate due to the high-pass filters. They just won't allow it - or will complain that customer use to much data !!!
Let's see - 22GB plan is what.... $2,500 / month? + $45 for each device I want to use.
Extrapolating about extrapolating (Score:2)
Fitting to two points give a silly result, therefore all extrapolation is worthless.
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Yeah, I hear you are great at beating off...
Bandwidth growth is impossible b/c infrastructure (Score:1)
The article claims that in the last 90 days, there were 150 million new LTE subscriptions. They claim that bandwidth usage in the US has increased 1000% in the last few years. As any regular reader of Slashdot knows, that's not possible.
It's been pointed out many times by Slashdot commenters that the cell companies built their networks ONCE, and have been rolling in the profit ever since. They never replaced all the 2G equipment that provided 50Kbps, 3G never happened. 4G is make believe. They aren't co
So that's how they're doing it (Score:3)
Re:So that's how they're doing it (Score:5, Insightful)
Buy a nexus. It's not their fault you don't buy their phones.
Re: So that's how they're doing it (Score:2)
Sounds about right (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sounds about right (Score:5, Insightful)
And another 1GB from Facebook tracking.
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Data is everything a mobile phone sends and receives. So a video phone call is a data sent and data received. As growth in video phone calls increase, so will recording and sending videos, rather than sending a photo, with a corresponding surge in data traffic.
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Data is everything a mobile phone sends and receives. So a video phone call is a data sent and data received.
What? No. When people talk about mobile data, they're talking about what goes across the IP network, not the cellular call data.
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A video call is most certainly data.
Yeah, I figured out my mistake about halfway through hitting submit, too late. And then I actually went and looked back to see if it had gotten posted by checking the top entry in my comments list, and it wasn't there, so I thought I had gotten away with it (I hit ESC before the content came back... but not in time to stop the form submission, apparently.)
My bad.
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I was making a satirical comment on the state of how we let big companies track our movements online. Obviously it wouldn't take 1GB of 22GB and it wouldn't just be Facebook (I'm looking at you "Don't be evil" Google).
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Curse you, good sir! I came here to post the exact same thing!
How much will be marketing and bad JS? (Score:1)
How much of that data downloaded will be excessive advertising or obtrusive javascript files?
Lucky me! (Score:1)
I'm way below average
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Yeah, we know.
Shit... (Score:2)
...my daughter uses that much now.
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Yeah. I average 150+ a month. Thanks to my Verizon unlimited data plan.
Wow, I use about 500MB.
If I stream music from a live radio station for approximately 8 hours the data usage is 2 GB. If I listened to the music from Monday to Friday while I work an eight-hour period, then in one week the data usage would be 10 GB without email or the occasional tweet. In a month 40 GB of data used would be the minimum assuming I limited myself to only 8 hours of streaming radio and a few emails and tweets. This costs me CAD90.00 plus taxes. What if I work 12-hour days or on the weekend or I want to watch videos
And the most bandwidth (Score:2)
One can purchase will be 20GB requiring most to pay extra for the 2GB most need.
Verizon just poked the bear (Score:2)
I usually run 1-10 gigs per month on my unlimited plan but they finally got around to charging me that extra $20/month on my last cycle. Since they increased my bill, I'm not going to put up with the crappy service I get at my house. In the evening, I barely get 3G speeds (tho I have an LTE connection and usually get 60-80ms pings). I used to just connect to my cable service when I'm at home but, if they're going to charge me more, I'm going to demand more. No more offloading to WiFi. And the only way
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How is the signal at your house?
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-108 dBm, 32 asu right now. I know it's not great but I averaged 4-5mbps during evening hours when I bought the house. I've used it a few times as a backup when the cable went out and it was fine. I streamed the superbowl in HD through my phone this year. The drop in performance is very recent. I was going to ignore it until they increased my bill. They should have left me alone. :)
I don't expect stellar performance with that signal but I'm getting 7Mbps now at 1:45am. I've seen it sustain 15Mbps jus
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Sounds about like my experience it used to run between 8-10mbps but in the last 6 months it dropped down to 4mbps or less and the connection would drop out and I would have to manually reset it.
Swapped out all of my equipment ended up replacing my longtime router modem combo with a t1114 That fixed the need for the manual resets but it was still slow and unstable.
So I dont know if it was the trees or if verizons towers loose range the more heavily loaded they are.
What I ended up doing that solved my problem
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Anyways, every month or two, I make sure to delete 20-40GB of music from my phone, and then re-download my "80's-90's Music" playlist from iCloud
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Verizon's not allowed to throttle grandfathered LTE. It's part of the agreement they made when they bought their huge chunk of the 700Mhz spectrum years ago. They're allowed to throttle 3G but I get LTE at home.
I scoff at your pithy 22GB/month (Score:2)
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Really? That sounds ridiculous (not saying your wrong). I thought the consensus was that online gaming didn't need a lot of bandwidth and data, just low latency. Maybe it's a console thing? I really don't think my PC is pulling down GBs/day for gaming online; streaming is most definitely what eats into my data cap the most.
Also, I assume that you're not letting him do that through a Mobile connection, lol.
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Maps and character skins/models. It was a long time ago now, (closing in on a decade) but when Unreal Tournament 3 came out, we were shocked to find that maps were clocking in at 50-100mb each. While you could play just fine on a 1-2Mbps DSL connection, you'd miss the first few minutes of each map if you didn't already have everything downloaded. That included if someone used a custom skin or model that was on the server but which you didn't have. Part of the problem was often that the server didn't have th
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Hmm, I guess that makes sense. Yeah, 20-50GB is basically average for any AAA game nowadays.
Really? So little?? (Score:1)
In antemillenial units, that's just one CD per day. Don't you think people will be watching series and movies on their phones? By then we will most definitely have usable mobile projectors, folding screens, maybe viewing glasses or even a brain interface.
Plus tumblr will stay bloated (Score:2)
Report: Average American Will Use 22GB of Mobile Data Per Month In 2021
Oh come on, now. We'll use much more than that watching 4Ks of Where The Boys Aren't, vols. 127, 128, 129, and 130.
Will Use 22GB of Mobile Data Per Month (Score:4, Insightful)
- how much will 22gb/month cost for them, and
- how many of those average Americans will have at least a usable 4G connection by then.
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Yea, that was my thought too. Unless they seriously build out capacity, I have zero reason to pay out the nose for that kind of data.
Besides, phones keep getting thinner and thinner so where is the battery life going to be coming from? I don't plan on being chained to a power outlet to use 22 gigs. Utterly bonkers.
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not entirely fair (Score:1)
What's with the 22GB? (Score:1)
Re:Reasons why I don't like the Internet of Things (Score:4, Insightful)
IoT - imagine all the stuff in the world that works suddenly became as easy to use and dependable as your printer.
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I think that says more about your colleague's printer than the IoT. I'd pay good money for the IoT if it worked like my printer does. Brother wireless color laser, if you're interested in knowing. It sits there and does nothing for months at a time in a deep sleep, and when when I hit "Print" on my laptop, provided we haven't piled crap on the top of it, it wakes up and spits out nice full color pages and then goes back to deep sleep. It's not accessible from the outside world, and as far as I can tell by l
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Agreed on all points, I love my Brother laser printer.
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Please give a detailed analysis of how I failed anywhere in those posts. Linking to posts where I refute your logic doesn't prove me wrong, not does posting the same exact thing over again refute anything I said. Your analysis is due on Monday, get cracking skippy.
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I prefer the "Appy Apps" guy, at least he's concise.
Apps!