Global smartphone average monthly cellular data usage 2016-2021

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Petroc Taylor,
Jan 18, 2023
This statistic displays the average monthly smartphone cellular data usage from 2016 to 2021. In 2016, on average a smartphone consumed 1.7 GBs of cellular data per month. That number is projected to reach 8.9 GBs in 2021.

Worldwide smartphone average monthly cellular data usage from 2016 to 2021 (in GBs per month)

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Release date

April 2017

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2016 to 2017

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