FCC Reports Monthly Data Consumption: 4G Users - 7GB, Broadband Users - 9GB

   

The FCC published its "OBI - Omnibus Broadband Initiative - Technical Paper NO 4" on Broadband Performance (here).

Some findings:

• In the first half of 2009, the median broadband user consumed almost 2 gigabytes of data per month, whereas the average (mean) user consumed over 9 gigabytes per month. Mean usage is driven by a small set of users who consume large amounts of data. Overall, per-person usage is growing substantially (30-35% per year).
• In 2009, U.S residential consumers subscribed to broadband connections across a range of technologies, with average (mean) and median advertised download speeds of 7–8 Mbps:
    
• Fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP): 10–15 Mbps;
• Cable modem: 8-11 Mbps;
• DSL: 2.5-3.5 Mbps (including fiber-to-the-node (FTTN));
• Satellite or fixed wireless: approximately 1.3 Mbps.
• FCC analysis shows that average (mean) actual speed consumers received was approximately 4 Mbps, while the median actual speed was roughly 3 Mbps in 2009.
   
• Therefore actual download speeds experienced by U.S. consumers lag advertised speeds by roughly 50%.
  
  [UK numbers are similar (here) - "In April 2009, average actual (or download) speeds were 4.1Mbit/s, 58% of average advertised ‘up to’ speeds (7.1Mbit/s)]
• Average consumption on wireless devices, for 2009 (may be compared to previous data shown here):  

Source - FCC OBI report

See also "Validas: Usage per User Increased from 96.8 MB to 145.8 MB" - here