According to the latest data from Statista, approximately 83% of US consumers use at least one streaming service, up by more than 10% in the last five years. In addition, recent findings in an OpenVault report from the second quarter of 2024 show the average American household uses 586GB of data per month and spends an average of three hours streaming digital media. Plus, 18% of internet users are described as “Power Users,” averaging more than 1TB of data a month.
This chart breaks down the total usage of television in the US from September of last year.
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That’s all well and good, but several internet providers, including prominent names such as AT&T, Cox, Mediacom and Xfinity enforce data caps with some of their plans, some as low as 400GB. If you’re saddled with an internet plan that has a data cap, you’ll need
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