07/23/2018

Tech-connected Devices Driving Wireless Growth

As a culture, we’re more data-hungry than ever

As a culture, we’re becoming more data-hungry than ever.

And that’s something reflected in a new survey from the wireless association CTIA, which reported earlier this monththat an impressive 15.7 trillion megabytes of mobile data were used in 2017. That is a 14.3 percent increase from 2016’s tally of 13.7 trillion megabytes and roughly 10 times the amount of wireless data traffic reported five years prior. It’s a whopping 40 times the traffic volume in 2010.

In its latest State of Wireless Report, CTIA also revealed that a major driving factor of the increased data use is in the form of data-only devices, such as wearables and connected cars.

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