How much cellular data do you think the average North American smartphone uses per hour? Based on some tinkering, Ericsson’s projections suggest the answer ranges between 36 MB to 846 MB, depending on how many hours the device is used for. However, as we shall show, there is a strange inversion going on, which is hard to account for. Looking at the North American example, in 2025, Ericsson reports that the average smartphone uses 25.39 GB of data per month – 25,390 MB. There are 720 hours in a month, meaning that if you divide the monthly megabytes by the number of hours, you reach a figure of 35.26 MB per hour – a daily total of around 846.33 MB…