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OpenVault, a company that tracks and provides broadband data usage levels, has released new research showing US cable Internet customers using an average of 268.7GB per month, with 4.1 percent of households using at least 1TB. This is double the amount from last year, which saw 2.1 percent of households hitting 1TB. Despite this growth, companies still want to pretend data caps serve a purpose aside from profit and don't make service worse: Comcast, for instance, claims “99 percent of our customers do not use 1 terabyte of data.”
OpenVault's new report is based on household usage in December 2018. The data comes entirely from cable networks, so it does not include any fiber, DSL, or wireless Internet services, an OpenVault spokesperson told Ars. OpenVault declined to say how many households were included in the data, and it's not clear which cable provider networks were studied. The 268.7GB average household data used in December 2018 was "up from 226.4GB/HH [household] at the end of June 2018 and a 33.3 percent increase over the YE 2017 average of 201.6GB/HH," OpenVault said.
OpenVault's new report is based on household usage in December 2018. The data comes entirely from cable networks, so it does not include any fiber, DSL, or wireless Internet services, an OpenVault spokesperson told Ars. OpenVault declined to say how many households were included in the data, and it's not clear which cable provider networks were studied. The 268.7GB average household data used in December 2018 was "up from 226.4GB/HH [household] at the end of June 2018 and a 33.3 percent increase over the YE 2017 average of 201.6GB/HH," OpenVault said.