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Netflix and YouTube combined account for more than...

Netflix and YouTube combined account for more than 50 percent of downstream traffic on fixed networks in North America, said a Sandvine report released Monday (http://bit.ly/HIV79j). Netflix is the leading downstream application with 31.6 percent of traffic, followed by YouTube…

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at 18.6 percent, said the report. Sandvine’s Global Internet Phenomena Report is based on data from the company’s more than 250 service provider customers across the globe. The average monthly mobile usage in the Asia-Pacific now exceeds 1 GB, and videos account for 50 percent of the peak downstream traffic, compared with the monthly average of 443 MB in North America, said the report. Netflix now makes up more than 20 percent of downstream traffic on certain fixed networks in the British Isles in the less than two years since its launch, said the report. Instagram is the seventh top-ranked downstream application on mobile networks in Latin America, said Sandvine.