Americans used just over 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023, up 36% over the prior year in the largest single-year increase in wireless data consumption, according to an industry survey released on Tuesday.
Survey: https://api.ctia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2024-Annual-Survey-1.pdf
- AmbiguousProps ( @AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ) English9•7 days ago
Why does the headline & story use megabytes for this? Especially in a report about 2023.
That’s the measurements survey used. Survey: https://api.ctia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2024-Annual-Survey-1.pdf
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- Skydancer ( @Skydancer@pawb.social ) English8•7 days ago
Americans used just over 100
trillion megabytesexabytes of wireless data in 2023Megabytes are absolutely the wrong unit for this amount of data.
- Mac ( @Mac@mander.xyz ) English4•7 days ago
nobody knows what an exabyte is so why would anybody use that?
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English2•7 days ago
Ditch exabytes, return to bytes
- kowcop ( @kowcop@aussie.zone ) English6•7 days ago
How many Danny DeVitos is that?
- zero_spelled_with_an_ecks ( @zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ) English3•7 days ago
In what resolution? Lossy or lossless compression?
- Zoop ( @Zoop@beehaw.org ) English1•7 days ago
Not enough, I can tell you that! We need more Danny Devitos.