About 53 percent of mobile users now use mobile data services or applications of one sort or another, Validas reports. That is up from 42 percent in 2009. The typical user consumes 145 Mbytes a month, compared to 96.8 MBytes in 2009. The typical smartphone user consumes 415 Mbytes, up from 139 Mbytes in 2009.
Mobile PC broadband users consume 1.5 Mbytes a month, up from about 1.4 Mbytes in 2009.
Feature phone users consume about 68 Mbytes a month, up from 46 Mbytes.
Verizon Wireless posted the largest percentage increase in mean data usage per user from 48 MBytes to 147 MBytes.
T-Mobile users consume 121 Mbytes, typically. Sprint users consume about 133 Mbytes, primarily because more Sprint customers now consume 50 Mbytes or less each month.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
53% of Mobile Customers Use Data
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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