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December 10th, 2009, 01:05
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Well, it's a good thing life comes with an unlimited data plan, as a recent study conducted by the University of California, San Diego has found that Americans consume plenty of gigabytes in the average day. Thirty-four gigabytes, to be specific, which translates to a grand total of of 3.6 zettabytes of information consumed by American households in 2008 (or 3.6 billion trillion bytes). Of course, that doesn't just consist of gigabytes "consumed" the traditional way, but instead encompasses everything from TV (still the leader by a wide margin) to phone calls to newspapers. In terms of time, the study found that Americans spent about 11.8 hours a day consuming information in one way or another, the majority of which was spent staring at a screen of some sort -- and, yes, they did take HD content into account, but its growth apparently hasn't yet resulted in a huge jump in data consumption.
Study finds Americans consume 34 gigabytes of information per day (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/study-finds-americans-consume-34-gigabytes-of-information-per-da/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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Well, it's a good thing life comes with an unlimited data plan, as a recent study conducted by the University of California, San Diego has found that Americans consume plenty of gigabytes in the average day. Thirty-four gigabytes, to be specific, which translates to a grand total of of 3.6 zettabytes of information consumed by American households in 2008 (or 3.6 billion trillion bytes). Of course, that doesn't just consist of gigabytes "consumed" the traditional way, but instead encompasses everything from TV (still the leader by a wide margin) to phone calls to newspapers. In terms of time, the study found that Americans spent about 11.8 hours a day consuming information in one way or another, the majority of which was spent staring at a screen of some sort -- and, yes, they did take HD content into account, but its growth apparently hasn't yet resulted in a huge jump in data consumption.
Study finds Americans consume 34 gigabytes of information per day (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/study-finds-americans-consume-34-gigabytes-of-information-per-da/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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