iPhone Responsible for Half of All Mobile Traffic, Globally
iPhone Responsible for Half of All Mobile Traffic, Globally
Posted 11/24/2009 at 2:37pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Where is half of the world's mobile data bandwidth disappearing? The avaricious Apple iPhone is devouring more than half of the global mobile data bandwidth, according to a new report published by mobile advertising company AdMob. The report details the mobile internet usage trend during the month of October. This is the first time that the iPhone's share of the global mobile internet traffic has gone past 50 percent. It stood at 43 percent at the end of September.
The iPhone is almost performing out of its skin when it comes to hogging mobile data bandwidth. This is because its share of the global smartphone market is just a third of its contribution to the world's mobile internet traffic. Symbian smartphones came in a distant second in October with a 25% share, down 4% from the previous month. While RIM and Blackberry smartphones lost a bit of their share, Android's share rose to 11% during the month.
Image Credit: AdMob
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TechJunkie
November 25, 2009 at 8:14am
I just don't see how? Being that most of the country on AT&T's network uses the older 2G technology (because their 3G sucks ***) and even in their 3G coverage area like NY, San Francisco, etc. are spotty to non-existent. So I say that Admob is a crock of crap.
GM From My Chea...
November 24, 2009 at 6:04pm
Most of those people don't even really need a smart phone and just have it because it's trendy, which is giving Apple's marketing dept a compliment, even still the phone is a qualty product so this article does not suprise me.
Caboose
November 24, 2009 at 5:06pm
I wonder how much of that 50% is due to compromised jailbroken iPhones?
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