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Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023(www.reuters.com)

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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

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Skydancer@pawb.social
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Americans used just over 100 trillion megabytes exabytes of wireless data in 2023

Megabytes are absolutely the wrong unit for this amount of data.

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Mac@mander.xyz
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nobody knows what an exabyte is so why would anybody use that?

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mycodesucks@lemmy.world
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We live in a world where finding out what an exabyte is takes all of 3 seconds. You really want to argue the standard for communication of information should be based on the most ignorant and unmotivated people?

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Mac@mander.xyz
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looks like you answered your own question there bud

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scholar@lemmy.world
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How about billion Gigabytes, or million Terabytes?

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Mac@mander.xyz
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at that point what’s the difference?

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Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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Ditch exabytes, return to bytes

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