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Mobile broadband data used this year
- 1.3 ZB Estimate · 2024 · ITU
- 41.2 terabytes per second, modelled
- +0 Since you opened this page
Putting it in perspective
- Per second
- 41.2
- Per minute
- 2,471
- Per hour
- 148,300
- Per day
- 3,559,206
- Still to come this year
- 333,351,024
Counted in terabytes.
How this number is made
- Source
- ITU, Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2024 - Internet traffic (27 Nov 2024)
“It is estimated that it will be close to 1.3 ZB in 2024.”
- Step 01
Take ITU’s figure for 2024: 1.3 ZB (an estimate).
- Step 02
Convert the unit: zettabytes × 1,000,000,000 = terabytes, which gives 1,300,000,000 terabytes a year.
- Step 03
Spread it evenly over a year of 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days): about 41.2 terabytes per second.
- Step 04
Count from 00:00 UTC on 1 January of the current year, so the number resets every New Year.
- On screen
- The result of those steps, recomputed four times a second in your browser. Nothing on this page is fetched live from the publisher.
- Why this can't be exact
- Real activity is not spread evenly: it clusters in working hours, weekdays and seasons, so the count runs ahead or behind the true figure at any given moment. It runs at the 2024 pace until a figure for the current year is published. Digits beyond the first two or three are the model ticking, not extra precision.
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