As in Austria, more data was used in German mobile networks in 2019 than ever before. Telefonica
The o2 network said it broke the one-exabyte limit for the first time on Thursday – this corresponds to a billion gigabytes. The competitors Telekom and Vodafone have never achieved as much.
If a single person were to use up this amount of data, they could, for example, stream music for 1.5 million years. In 2018, data consumption in the o2 network was still 662 million gigabytes.
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Streaming services as data drivers
With 900 million gigabytes of data consumption in the past twelve months, Deutsche Telekom is slightly behind its Munich competitor, as can be seen from a graphic by the Bonn group. Vodafone users, however, used around 770 million gigabytes in the mobile network. On average, that’s about as much per day as it would take to stream series on Netflix for almost 90,000 years with a smartphone, a spokesman said. Compared to the previous year, the increase was 40 percent.
The Telefonica figures also show how the consumption of data volume by the individual user has changed. Needed an o2 user
An average of 3.8 gigabytes per month in 2017, a year later it was 4.4 gigabytes and last year even 6 gigabytes per month.
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