10,570 petabytes

Data consumption up by more than twelve percent

4340 petabytes of data were consumed via mobile broadband.

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As digitalization increases, so does the volume of data consumed in Austria. From 2022 to 2023, data consumption rose by more than 12% to around 10,570 petabytes, according to the annual report published by the Austrian Broadcasting and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority RTR. 

The majority of this is attributable to fixed broadband (6230 petabytes), with the remainder (4340 petabytes) coming from mobile broadband (via smartphones), which is becoming increasingly important. One petabyte corresponds to around one million gigabytes.

Two days' worth of calls
After reaching a coronavirus-related peak of over 29,000 million minutes in 2020, call minutes have since fallen steadily and stabilized at the pre-coronavirus level in 2023. In total, more than 25,000 million minutes were made in 2023, of which 1.42 million minutes were made via landlines and around 23.59 million minutes via mobile networks.

"Based on around nine million Austrians, the average person spent 2780 minutes or around two days on the phone," says Klaus M. Steinmaurer, Managing Director of RTR's Telecommunications and Postal Services Division.

Less invested
According to the RTR report, a total of over 789 million euros was invested in sales, customer service and infrastructure in Austria in the previous year. The majority of this (EUR 778 million) was invested in technical infrastructure. This means that a good eight percent less was invested than in 2022.