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Report: Average American Will Use 22GB of Mobile Data Per Month In 2021 (mashable.com)
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.
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.
Beats the rest off by a mile!
The average American will be too fat to use a phone in 2021
Extreme overcharge fees. No wonder the provider lock in scam is so profitable! Google,please design Android to be impossible to vendor lock. It's in your interest you know.
And 20 GB of that will be from ads!
How much of that data downloaded will be excessive advertising or obtrusive javascript files?
I'm way below average
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
...my daughter uses that much now.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
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.
Judging from what I pay Verizon for 2gb, the average monthly phone bill is going to be about $1000.
at these prices.
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 constantly upgrading the networks, spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year, so there can be no increase in mobile bandwidth. GPRS is all there has ever been, and all there will ever be. Slashdot comments always remind us, the mobile networks were built once - nothing is ever replaced with newer equipment and faster interconnects.
One can purchase will be 20GB requiring most to pay extra for the 2GB most need.
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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 I can tell what kind of speed I'm getting is to move data. As a result of testing, I've moved 41 gigs in the last week. My speed goes from about 0.3-0.5Mbps in the evening hours to 10-15Mbps around 2am. They swear they're not throttling me and that demand is just high during those hours. Right. I live in a pretty rural area so it's not a population density issue. And Charter has uncapped 60Mbps cable internet here so nobody's stuck with cellular as their only internet option.
The crazy thing is I can go a few miles away and get 50Mbps in the Home Depot parking lot any time day or night.
So screw Verizon. They want that extra $20? Fine. They're going to earn it. I'll keep moving a ton of data through my phone while opening tickets about shitty service at home. I bet Star Citizen needs a 20+ gig update. I'll start that before I go to bed.
can only wonder
Doing what? That's either big data or hi-def movies. Both of which, can't be done on a smart-phone.
I know a copyright infringer (he doesn't distribute so technically, he's not a pirate), who just got a 1,000 GB home connection: He's complaining it's impractical to download 30 movies per day, via a pacific island nation, as allowed by his home connection. He thinks an 8 GB allowance for his smart-phone is excessive; I'm guessing, it's because he doesn't use his smart-phone for sucking data.
One of my nephews burns through 5-15GB per day whenever he stays over just from using multiplayer games like Bloodborne, Dark Souls III and Overwatch on the PS4.
Caps are keeping mobile data usage artificially low today.
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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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.
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.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Well, the more important issue is not how much mobile data any American will use, but:
- 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.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
I prefer the "Appy Apps" guy, at least he's concise.
Apps!
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
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 looking at network traffic, it doesn't try to connect to anything in the outside world. It's an appliance that does nothing most of the time, but when called upon does it's job rapidly and reliably, and then goes back to sleep.
I stopped buying cheap printers a long time ago, and it was truly the best decision I've ever made. This color laser costs less to use than any other printer I've had. Why? There is no ink to go dry, and it doesn't break, jam, choke, and clog up all of the time. And It Just Works, which saves piles of my time.
Velociraptor = Distiraptor / Timeraptor
Thanks for that unsolicited Brother testimonial. Clearly, your printer selection skills are top tier!
This is why we all come to Slashdot to be closer to people of your stature!
Not with data caps in the u.s.
ALL wireless in the u.s. has a data cap of some sort. Even the unlimited plans have a point where data is throttled.
Since the caps are not actually needed for quality of service, the vendors will never let them go and will not raise them much either.
I can see this. More than 21 gigabytes of ads. The data consumed for my own purposes, unchanged from today. I am seriously considering becoming a luddite and living as a hermit. Another commode accessory advertised with a squatting unicorn defecating soft-serve ice cream I can live without. Damn! I can't enjoy soft-serve ice cream anymore.
i would not say the average user would /use/ that much data so much as the average user will be forced that much data. strip the ads and retarded scripting from pages and its amazing how light they are. imagining that the state of commericialisation will only get fatter from here on out.
45 gb data plan for $12
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That would be awesome, my printer works great, and it has done ever since I ditched the shitty inkjet and got a laser printer.
Agreed on all points, I love my Brother laser printer.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
I used mine to print out the "coren22 colossal fail list" vs. apk. It performed great. You didn't. 3 strikes yer out Coren22 https://slashdot.org/comments.... , http://slashdot.org/comments.p... , https://slashdot.org/comments....
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.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Why? You did a great job of opening your mouth and inserting your foot 3 times as apk made you eat your words Coren22 https://slashdot.org/comments.... , http://slashdot.org/comments.p... , https://slashdot.org/comments.... your illogic logic seems to say that losing on your end is winning.
Fitting to two points give a silly result, therefore all extrapolation is worthless.
Odd that I switched to a new AT&T "Unlimited Plan" which gives me 22GB of data before throttling me down to the stone age and now Ericcson is predicting 22GB will be what everyone needs in a few years. Not 20GB, not 25GB. What's so special about the 22GB amount? http://arstechnica.com/busines...
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