Good News for Broadband in OpenVault’s Second Quarter Report

There’s a lot of good news for the broadband ecosystem in OpenVault’s report on the industry during the second quarter of 2025. The firm found that average subscriber usage hit 664.2 GB, super power users—those who consume more than two terabytes per month—increased by 5%. Monthly average consumption during the second quarter was 664.2 GB, a 13.4% increase over the 585.8 GB recorded in the second quarter of 2024. Total consumption increased 1.0 GB between the first to the second quarter. That breaks the historical pattern of first to second quarter declines. The OpenVault report found that upstream broadband traffic increased 17.9 year-over-year. That is the second most on record — following only the 55.8% increase caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.