Americans’ Wireless Data Usage Continues to Boom, CTIA Annual Wireless Industry Survey Released)

From CTIA:

CTIA today released its Annual Wireless Industry Survey, which found Americans used a record 13.72 trillion megabytes (MBs) of mobile data in 2016, an increase of over 4 trillion MBs over 2015 and 35 times the volume of traffic in 2010.
The amount of data traffic sent over wireless networks in 2016 -13.72 trillion MBs – is the equivalent of 1.58 million years of streaming HD videos.
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Some other key findings from this year’s survey:
Data-intensive mobile devices continue to rise
Heavy traffic-generating devices, smartphones and wireless-enabled tablets and laptops, now total 309.8 million of the 395.9 million devices on carrier networks – a 238% increase since 2010.
There are more wireless devices than Americans
With 395.9 million total active devices in the U.S., adoption is now equal to 120.6% of the U.S. population, or more than 1.2 wireless devices per American.
Industry committed to building world-leading networks
A record 308,334 cells sites were in operation in 2016, representing a 57% growth over the last decade, thanks to over $26 billion invested in 2016 alone.

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Resources
Direct to 2017 Report Summary/”Wireless Snapshot”
Free to access. 8 pages; PDF.
Direct to 2016 Report Summary
Free to access. 4 pages; PDF.
Methodology

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