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Americans’ Mobile Data Usage More Than Doubled in 2015, says CTIA

Americans’ Mobile Data Usage More Than Doubled in 2015, says CTIA Image Credit: Samsung

An annual survey results by CTIA found that Americans used 9.6 trillion megabytes (MB) of mobile data in 2015, three times the 3.2 trillion MB in 2013. This is the equivalent of consumers streaming 59,219 videos every minute or roughly 18 million MB.

Meredith Attwell Baker, President and CEO, CTIA, said that "In 2014, we had a record amount of data on our 4G networks. Remarkably, the amount of traffic on mobile networks more than doubled last year and shows no signs of slowing down."

Not only data usage increased, Americans also used more than 2.8 trillion minutes of voice calls on their mobile phones, up more than 17 percent from 2014 and exchanged more than 2.1 trillion texts, videos and photo messages.

To handle the increase in the usages, America’s wireless carriers invested almost $32 billion in 2015, including adding almost 10,000 new cell sites. Since 2010, carriers have invested more than $177 billion to improve their coverage and capacity to better serve all Americans, said CTIA.

According to CTIA, the smartphone is the number one wireless device in the U.S. and is still growing with 70 percent of the population now owning a smartphone. There were more than 228 million smartphones in 2015, which was up almost 10 percent from 2014. At the same time, there were more than 41 million tablets on wireless networks, up 16 percent from 2014.

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