broadband usage
UK broadband usage more than doubled in 2020 and peaked on Boxing Day
UK broadband usage more than doubled in 2020, largely due to home working in lockdown, live-streamed sport and updates to video games such as Call of Duty, a new report reveals. One petabyte equals one million gigabytes (GB). On average a 4K film stream uses about 7.2GB per hour. Boxing Day was named the busiest day of the year for broadband – when a record 210PB was consumed across Openreach's networks – due to a combination of video calls to catch up with family and the lure of online entertainment. This year, network usage on Christmas Day was nearly double that of last year – 181PB compared with 96PB.
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