50 GBytes Consumer Per Person, in 5 Years

"In five years a consumer is moving toward a 50 Gigabyte per month usage level," says Leap CEO  Doug Hutcheson. That doesn't mean all, or most of that usage will occur over a wireless network, though.


That figure represents aggregate usage across all networks, using fixed, wireless and public or third-party Wi-Fi access. By way of comparison, AT&T estimated in 2011 that a typical household consumed about 18 Gbytes a month. 


Analysts at  iGR research suggest that by 2016 U.S. end users will, on average, consume about 2.6 GB of mobile data per month. 

If correct, that would imply wireless consumption would be about five percent of total bandwidth consumed by a "typical" user.