US Smartphone Users Accessing 9.7 GB in Monthly Wireless Data Usage

Combined data traffic streaming over cellular and Wi-Fi networks exploded between 2H 2013 and 1H 2015, rising over threefold, according to Strategy Analytics’ Telemetry Intelligence Platform. Monthly wireless data usage for US smartphone users averaged 9.7 GB during 1H’15. Only 1.6 GB/month (17 percent of total data) crossed over cellular networks. Digging deeper into the data, Strategy Analytics found that African-Americans accessed more data over wireless networks than any other ethnicity. The US’ second-largest ethnic group, Hispanics didn’t access as much data via cellular networks as African-Americans.