It looks like American people aren’t able to get enough of their mobile gadgets, as consumption of mobile data nearly doubled. According to the report of a consultant for wireless carriers, the average consumption in the world was 240 megabytes per month in 2013, up from 140 megabytes in 2012.

The statistics also demonstrated that in the United States an average user downloaded the equivalent of 1,200 photos, while last year it was only 690 pictures per month. The industry observers believe that such increase in mobile data usage could be attributed (at least partly) to the widespread coverage of LTE – the latter is 10 times faster than its predecessor, 3G. Other experts point at the popularity of mobile phone with bigger screens – for example, the newer Samsung’s Galaxy smartphone, able to download bigger images. Finally, there was also a clear rise of number of people using tablets to connect to the Internet on the go.