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It amazes me the growth in data usage

adamtemp64 — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 12:09:19 GMT

From the latest official financial results pdf https://www.telefonica.com/documents/162467/142176244/rdos18t3-eng.pdf/ab01dfa7-271a-61b4-efd6-26a8fc09965f

A 58% increase on last year !

Re: It amazes me the growth in data usage

Bambino — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:43:13 GMT

Doesn't really amaze me at all. More data is being offered for less money. Stands to reason that the growth would increase as it has. I think that with the advent of 5G, more and more people will abandon their home broadband and rely on mobile broadband entirely.

Re: It amazes me the growth in data usage

dgilbert2 — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 20:18:41 GMT

58% is a big increase in one year, but so much of what we do now uses more and more data. Also, the size of apps just seems to grow and grow these days with daily updates, catching you out if you have wifi switched off!

Re: It amazes me the growth in data usage

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:39:41 GMT

58% increase in use.. I wonder what the increase in capacity was?

Re: It amazes me the growth in data usage

dgilbert2 — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:51:07 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
58% increase in use.. I wonder what the increase in capacity was?

Now that is a good challenge, but I bet you know the answer

Re: It amazes me the growth in data usage

Cleoriff — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 22:05:21 GMT

@Bambino wrote:
Doesn't really amaze me at all. More data is being offered for less money. Stands to reason that the growth would increase as it has. I think that with the advent of 5G, more and more people will abandon their home broadband and rely on mobile broadband entirely.

A slightly different take on that this weekend @Bambino

I was away and no wifi available. I don't have a large data allowance on my phone so took my pc with me complete with 3 mobile dongle. This has never failed me at all. It did this weekend. The connection kept dropping out. So not happy with that at all.

Re: It amazes me the growth in data usage

Bambino — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 22:17:13 GMT

Well @Cleoriff, 5G is supposed to sort all that out (theoretically). Unfortunately it's still probably years away in the UK, although they're supposed to be working on it. I don't even know if the spectrum has been auctioned off yet? @adamtemp64 would probably know the answer to that.

Re: It amazes me the growth in data usage

Cleoriff — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 22:29:57 GMT

@Bambino wrote:
Well @Cleoriff, 5G is supposed to sort all that out (theoretically). Unfortunately it's still probably years away in the UK, although they're supposed to be working on it. I don't even know if the spectrum has been auctioned off yet? @adamtemp64 would probably know the answer to that.

@adamtemp64lives close to where we were (I think)

The dongle was Three 3G and has worked every time we have been to Brean....but as I said on this occasion, I may as well have left it at home.:smileysad:

Re: It amazes me the growth in data usage

adamtemp64 — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:20:36 GMT

@Bambino https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/media-releases/2018/results-auction-mobile-airwaves and some free spectrum for point to point use fixed wireless to aid 5g in the 60ghz band

brean is a few miles away @Cleoriff but historically 3 are poor in my part of somerset !

Re: It amazes me the growth in data usage

Cleoriff — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:34:44 GMT

@adamtemp64 wrote:

brean is a few miles away @Cleoriff but historically 3 are poor in my part of somerset !

Thanks @adamtemp64, though I have used Three the last couple of times we went and had no problems.

Maybe it was because we were in a different park to Unity this year?.

When we got home, I tried it immediately and it worked perfectly.

Out of interest, what do you suggest for a data sim in Somerset?

Re: It amazes me the growth in data usage

adamtemp64 — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 09:34:52 GMT

@Cleoriff Need to check out brean on the ofcom app, but in my part so far since local mast went 4g o2 lol, but village has fibre to cabinet broadband and get good speeds lol on a capped speed package. And the pub has free Wi-Fi lol

Re: It amazes me the growth in data usage

Cleoriff — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 10:06:44 GMT

@adamtemp64 wrote:
@Cleoriff Need to check out brean on the ofcom app, but in my part so far since local mast went 4g o2 lol, but village has fibre to cabinet broadband and get good speeds lol on a capped speed package. And the pub has free Wi-Fi lol

Thanks for that @adamtemp64

I may look at an O2 data sim then and I can swap for the best one if needed

Re: It amazes me the growth in data usage

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 17:47:11 GMT

@dgilbert2 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
58% increase in use.. I wonder what the increase in capacity was?
Now that is a good challenge, but I bet you know the answer

I guess we could ask @Chris_K about this subject!

Re: It amazes me the growth in data usage

dgilbert2 — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 18:10:51 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I guess we could ask @Chris_K about this subject!

It would be interesting to know

Re: It amazes me the growth in data usage

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 08:18:37 GMT

@adamtemp64 wrote:
From the latest official financial results pdf https://www.telefonica.com/documents/162467/142176244/rdos18t3-eng.pdf/ab01dfa7-271a-61b4-efd6-26a8fc09965f
A 58% increase on last year !

You did well to find the relevant section on data usage, as that’s quite a lengthy document

I think it might be a reflection of the increasing numbers of people who are moving to streaming services for music, films, and TV, rather than relying on than the traditional formats such as CDs, and DVDs. I recently traded in my 25 year old hi-fi separates, and I’m now using Tidal on a wireless music system, and it’s only my budget which is preventing me from trying their higher quality “lossless” streaming service. I think this is what unlimited broadband services were intended for.

My CD collection only has ornamental value at the moment, and I daresay my DVDs will be next