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| 1% of mobile users account for 50% of bandwith I saw this linked of the drudgereport. According to the story 1% of mobile users account for 50% of internet bandwidth use, the top 10% use 90% of bandwidth.
Story here - »www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/techn···tml?_r=2
The world’s congested mobile airwaves are being divided in a lopsided manner, with 1 percent of consumers generating half of all traffic. The top 10 percent of users, meanwhile, are consuming 90 percent of wireless bandwidth.
Arieso, a company in Newbury, England, that advises mobile operators in Europe, the United States and Africa, documented the statistical gap when it tracked 1.1 million customers of a European mobile operator during a 24-hour period in November.
The gap between extreme users and the rest of the population is widening, according to Arieso. In 2009, the top 3 percent of heavy users generated 40 percent of network traffic. Now, Arieso said, these users pump out 70 percent of the traffic.
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| That's so interesting. It's kind of like the 1% counting for most of the wealth in the country. OCCUPY bandwidth, anyone? Just kidding.
Why do you think this is? I'm a little confused. Is it maybe because many people don't have smart phones with wi-fi, internet, apps, etc.? | |
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| said by JennMcNeal23:Why do you think this is? I'm a little confused. Is it maybe because many people don't have smart phones with wi-fi, internet, apps, etc.?
I'd guess tethering and using a cellular to Wi-Fi phone or other device as a replacement for home terrestrial internet.
Most cellular companies are clamping down seriously on tethering. I suspect this 1% number (which Karl didn't report in the news for some reason) and tethering may be related.
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I don't tether and I can burn through 5 to 8GB's a month streaming pandora/surfing/emailing on my phone. | |
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remember when ATT announced it's new 250MB plan? Remember how they claimed like 50% of their smartphone users never used more than that? In spite of what almost everyone on here claimed about that being false, and without no numbers or data at all to back it up, i tended to believe ATT. Verizon followed a year later with a similar plan. They obviously knew their customers better than this forum, despite how much we, including myself, hated the new tiers and prices.
Most people i know use a smartphone. Even less-than-savvy users know to use WiFi at home, and those that dont tend generally not to do anything more than words with friends, facebook, and email. I know one person, who's a relatively young 31, who's had an iphone for 3 years and who's probably never opened a single app outside of the SMS and email apps. She recently upgraded to the 4S and just now is starting to use apps. She uses Siri, which i hear is pretty bandwidth intense, but other than that it's still just SMS, email, and an app or 2 that track and graph her running and a few offline games. She probably uses less than 100MB/month, tho i expect that to go up over the course of the next 2 years.
On the other hand, if i didnt have high speed WiFi at work, home, and my parents' home i would probably be over 5GB/mo. As it is, however, i'm rarely over 1.5 on 4G LTE.
Im not sure how comparable European stats are to American's usage and experience, but it sounds about right. Does their study include aircards or home mobile broadband setups? Those could be significantly higher than even tetherers. | |
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It actually makes sense. A ton of people get iPhones just because they think they are cool, and 95% of what they do is text and calls, and maybe email, which doesn't use much. I have gotten into streaming podcasts and streaming radio, and I can see my data consumption going up already.
The real scary part for the carriers, and one of the many reasons they are pushing LTE so hard, is what happens when the next 10% of the users get into streaming radio and podcasts, and using on-demand music services and start increasing their data usage from 200MB/mo to 2GB/mo or more? | |
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