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Broadband Stats: Wi-Fi Fuels Smartphones

Wi-Fi powers the smartphone experience, with most screen time and data usage happening over Wi-Fi rather than mobile networks.

January 8, 2025

In the fall, Opensignal released a report about smartphone data consumption, focusing on how users connect to the internet. The report found that Wi-Fi overwhelmingly powers the smartphone experience, beating out mobile networks. These findings underpin the important role Wi-Fi and unlicensed spectrum play in the modern connectivity experience.