iPhone Users Are Data Whores
Posted by admin | Posted in social networking | Posted on 03-09-2009
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For US customers, the biggest complaint about Apple’s spectacularly successful iPhone — in many cases the only complaint — is the quality of AT&T’s wireless network. This has led to rampant speculation that the iPhone will be moving beyond AT&T in 2010 or whenever its exclusivity agreement ends.
However, yesterday’s New York Times addresses the strain iPhone users place on AT&T’s network and questions if any US wireless carrier would fare better. When it comes to data usage, iPhone users are in a league of their own. According to the Times, not only do iPhone customers use the web and stream video, music, and download applications more than the average smartphone users, they also use more than ten times the network capacity.
This aligns with JiWire’s recent WiFi usage study (which matched a previous study released by Boingo), that showed that nearly 98% of all mobile devices connecting to public WiFi networks were either iPhones or iPod touch devices. Nielsen also issued a report looking at iPhone users and how they use data back in June.
via http://mashable.com/2009/09/03/iphone-att/
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