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Report: Average American Will Use 22GB of Mobile Data Per Month In 2021 (mashable.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the interconnected-world dept.

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.

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  1. Extrapolating by GrumpySteen · · 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.

    1. Re: Extrapolating by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 2

      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.

    2. Re: Extrapolating by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 2

      Well I'm not (currently) writing code, so downloading 10s of gigabytes of github repos isn't an issue either. :)

  2. So that's how they're doing it by johnsmithperson123 · · Score: 2

    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.

    1. Re:So that's how they're doing it by WarJolt · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

  3. Sounds about right by scunc · · Score: 5, Funny

    And 20 GB of that will be from ads!

    1. Re:Sounds about right by CanadianMacFan · · Score: 4, Insightful

      And another 1GB from Facebook tracking.

  4. Re:Lucky me! by WarJolt · · Score: 2

    Yeah, we know.

  5. Re:Reasons why I don't like the Internet of Things by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    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.

    --
    I am TheRaven on Soylent News
  6. Will Use 22GB of Mobile Data Per Month by l3v1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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    I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.