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.

Comments

Extrapolating

[GrumpySteen]

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.

Re:Sounds about right

[CanadianMacFan]

And another 1GB from Facebook tracking.

Re:So that's how they're doing it

[WarJolt]

Buy a nexus. It's not their fault you don't buy their phones.

Re:Reasons why I don't like the Internet of Things

[TheRaven64]

As a colleague of mine said:

IoT - imagine all the stuff in the world that works suddenly became as easy to use and dependable as your printer.

Will Use 22GB of Mobile Data Per Month

[l3v1]

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.