How much do Internet users download every month? How is this likely to change as the Internet becomes more a part of daily life? How far below the curve are Australia and New Zealand, compared to the rest of the world – and why? Today’s post talks about traffic demands, bitcaps, and what it all means.

In most of the world, broadband plans are sold by download and upload speed, with no restrictions on the amount of traffic consumed. This has allowed for the Internet to become a viable delivery method for music and video, increasingly via legal means since the emergence of Netflix Streaming, Hulu, and YouTube. This isn’t the case everywhere, as I’ll explain below.
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