Operator Says LTE Subscribers Using 15 GB Per Month!

One of the most interesting presentations we saw last week was a video conference keynote from Teliasonera, the first operator to have a commercial LTE network. In a lot of ways, Teliasonera is not a typical carrier, but they had some interesting insight to share on their experiences to date. They have seen a healthy degree of interest in their mobile data cards. They said that the average smartphone user on their network consumed 375MB/month of data. The average broadband user on their network, largely 3G data cards, consumed 5 GB/month. But the average LTE consumer (essentially all data cards) used 14 GB – 15GB/month of data.