We all know the stresses that data traffic growth is putting on wireless network capacity. After analyzing data usage of smartphones and notebooks and the applications they support on AT&Ts network, I gained a better understand what is causing this explosive growth in data usage (see table below).
The average smartphone residential user consumes between 200 and 300MB monthly. Currently, 65% of AT&T smartphone customers use less than 200MB of data per month on average.
Average residential (non-business) smartphone user consumes per day:
TOTAL DATA USAGE PER MONTH = ~ 255.5MB per month |
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Average residential (non-business) laptop user consumes per day:
TOTAL DATA USAGE PER MONTH = ~ 1GB per month |
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