Nor is it so much data compared to mobile broadband dongle usage, which might range about 2 Gbytes a month or so.
This is a similar growth pattern we saw on wired broadband networks; the faster the speeds, the more data we consumed.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
The Rise of the Gigabyte Phone
It might not seem obvious today, but we might soon be consuming nearly one gigabyte of data every month on our smartphones. That isn't much by wireline standards. But it is a pretty steep increase for smartphone users who have been consuming 200 megabytes a month or less.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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