Comcast will expand broadband usage data caps to a significant portion of its footprint, beginning next year. Comcast limits data usage to 1.2 TBs on its non-unlimited data plans before charging additional fees for subscribers who exceed that monthly limit….
Broadband power users, defined as subscribers who use 1 TB per month or more, are growing dramatically, according to the latest OVBI report from OpenVault. Broadband users are also adopting faster speeds, according to OpenVault data. The firm’s third quarter…
Net gains in broadband-only homes experienced a record jump during the second quarter causing the year-to-date total in 2020 for cord cutting households to more than double, according to Kagan, a group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. Broadband-only homes are…
Demand created by the COVID-19 pandemic is “pushing our members to upgrade both last-mile and backhaul capacity” according to a COVID-19 WISP traffic report from the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA). The survey confirmed some trends that WISPA and…
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact broadband usage, according to OpenVault Broadband Insights (OVBI). The report found that during COVID-19 upstream internet traffic rose 5.3% between the ends of the first and second quarters. This, the firm said, was probably…
Average broadband consumption at the end of the first quarter rose to 402.5GB, an increase of 47% compared to the first quarter 2019’s average of 273.5 GB and a 17 percent rise over the 344 GB in the fourth quarter…
Broadband subscribers are on pace to use a median of more than 250GB of data per month this year, according to a broadband data usage forecast from OpenVault. The basis of the prediction stems from the correlation between broadband consumption…
New broadband usage data from OpenVault reveals that video cord cutters, on average, use more than half a terabyte of broadband bandwidth per month. That usage behavior is more than double the 275 GB the average broadband subscriber uses, according…
Customers broadband usage jumps in the months leading up to a decision to cancel pay-TV service, according to new research from network analytics provider OpenVault – a finding that could be useful in predicting cord-cutting. “Given the potential disruption that…
Internet-only homes, defined as those that don’t subscribe to traditional pay-TV, use almost twice as much data as homes that have traditional pay-TV, according to a new broadband data usage report from OpenVault, a provider of broadband industry analytics and…
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