Americans used more than 1.1 trillion megabytes (MB) of data from July 2011-June 2012, which was an increase of 104 percent over the previous 12 months according to CTIA - The Wireless Association.
The survey also revealed that smart phone adoption continues to grow impressively. As of June 2012, smart phones made up 131 million (or 41 percent) of the almost 322 million wireless subscriber connections.
The number of tablets increased to 22 million, which is almost 17 percent of all wireless connections. In addition, there was an almost 10 percent increase in prepaid subscribers, from 68.4 to 74.9 million or 23.3 percent of the 322 million U.S. wireless subscribers.
Friday, October 12, 2012
U.S. Mobile Customer Data Consumption Up 104%
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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