OpenVault released Broadband Insights for Q4 2025

OpenVault released Broadband Insights for Q4 2025. The report found that upstream usage continued to outpace all other metrics in 2025. The year-end average of 55.86 GB across fiber and DOCSIS platforms represented a 21.7% year-over-year increase over the 45.9 GB record in 2024 and a 16.4% increase over 3Q25’s 47.98 GB. Other findings include:

• Average monthly usage rose 9.9% to 767.4 GB, the first time average usage has exceeded 700 GB.
• Average downstream usage of 711.4 GB in 4Q25 itself exceeded the 698.2 GB average total usage at the end of 2024.
• Median usage of 531.8 GB was 15.3% higher than the 481.2 GB median recorded in 4Q24, a rate of increase that was almost equal to the median increases of the previous two years combined (15.7%).