Source: IGR Press Release

iGR's new research study, "U.S. Home Broadband & WiFi Usage Forecast, 2011-2015," quantifies the bandwidth used in the typical U.S. home and the bandwidth used on WiFi devices.

iGR forecast that for the heaviest users of WiFi in the home (those in the 'extreme' category), total bandwidth used is expected to increase from more than 390 GB per month in 2011 to nearly 440 GB per month in 2015. iGR forecasts that WiFi will increase from 55 percent of the total bandwidth used in 2011 to more than 75 percent in 2015. This high level of data consumption is driven principally by demand for video, both streamed and downloaded. 

iGR's new report also finds that:   

• Older consumers are the least likely to use WiFi.
• Middle-aged consumers are more likely to use WiFi in airports, hotels. These are likely to be business travelers.
• Smartphone ownership tends to drive more WiFi usage -- conversely, consumers who do not have smartphones are least likely to use WiFi.
• Consumers with smartphones are more likely to use WiFi in various locations. Everything that applies to smartphone users also applies to WiFi use: for example, they tend to be in their 20s, 30s or 40s; they tend to be employed or, in some cases, in school; they tend to have reported annual household incomes that are above the U.S. median.
• Tablet users, by default, are the most likely to use WiFi in any given location. As discussed in other iGR research studies, tablet users are almost always smartphone users.

Source: Pyramid Press Release

FTTH accounted for 11 percent of total broadband lines in 2011. FTTH deployments have slowed in developed markets in the 2009-2011 period, but increased focus on service marketing combined with strong momentum in emerging markets have led to substantial growth in FTTH subscribers, according to Ozgur Aytar, Research Director and Pyramid's Practice Leader for Broadband and Media and Consultant behind Pyramid's new Fiber in the Last Mile Insight Pack.