"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.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
50 GBytes Consumer Per Person, in 5 Years
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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