{"id":81316,"date":"2025-08-20T23:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/81316\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T23:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:59:06","slug":"openvault-reports-accelerated-broadband-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/81316\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenVault Reports Accelerated Broadband Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, August 20, 2025 \u2013Americans are using the internet more than ever, according to a recent OpenVault Broadband Insights report.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/openvault.com\/resources\/ovbi\/?ref=broadbandbreakfast.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report released Tuesday<\/a> by OpenVault, led by CEO and Founder Mark Trudeau, revealed a shift in broadband consumption trends. Where usage typically declines in the second quarter, the report showed continued quarterly growth instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OpenVault\u2019s data showed that average per-subscriber usage rose to 664.2 gigabytes (GB) in Q2 2025 \u2013 an increase from 663.2 GB in Q1. While the increase\u00a0 was slight, it broke with the usual seasonal pattern, indicating long-term acceleration.<\/p>\n<p>Year-over-year usage growth was even more striking, with a 13.4 percent increase over Q2 2024\u2019s 585.8 GB \u2013 the strongest second-quarter growth rate since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Downstream traffic rose 13 percent year-over-year to 615.3 GB, while upstream usage surged by 17.9 percent, the fastest Q2 growth on record aside from the pandemic-driven spike in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Power users are also driving demand: 5 percent of subscribers now consume over 2 TB of data monthly, up from 3.7 percent at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribers on 1 Gbps+ plans averaged 955.0 GB of usage, a 14.4 percent increase year-over-year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, lower-tier speed plans continue to fade in relevance, with sub-50 Mbps users averaging just 117.4 GB \u2013 a 55 percent drop from a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, August 20, 2025 \u2013Americans are using the internet more than ever, according to a recent OpenVault Broadband&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-81316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}