This February 2021 report by OpenVault breaks new ground by exploring the cumulative impact of pandemic growth on broadband networks. Broadband service providers have experienced across-the-board growth in consumption and speeds, testing networks as never before due to COVID-19, the analysis shows. Data on two distinct categories is provided: subscribers on flat-rate billing (FRB) plans that offer unlimited data usage and those on usage-based billing (UBB) plans, which bill subscribers based on their broadband consumption. The average monthly bandwidth usage at the end of 2020 approached one- half of a terabyte (TB) of data, or close to 483 GB. Subscribers on unlimited usage plans, or FRB plans, were closer to 497 GB.
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