Average Cellphone Data Usage Is 145.8 MB Per Month

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 31, 2010 @03:26AM from the mostly-to-imdb-and-wikipedia-during-arguments dept.

destinyland writes "For the first time, the majority of cell phones are accessing data services — 53 percent, compared to only 42 percent last year, according to a new study by Validas. And each user downloads an average of 145.8 MB per month (the average was just 96.8 MB per month in 2009). The heaviest users are Verizon smartphone owners, averaging 428 MB per month (338 MB on average for iPhone users). In fact, Verizon users were twice as likely as iPhone users to exceed both 500 MB and 2 GB each month."

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Statistics fail. by kurokame · 2010-07-31 03:50 · Score: 5, Insightful

This is not useful data. The average data usage per month for all cell phone users includes (from the article) the 47% of all cell phone users who are not data users at all. This is like trying to find the average upload & download per month for broadband users by finding out the total bandwidth used by broadband subscribers then dividing it by the entire population of Earth.
Now that we've established your level of mathematical competency, could I interest you in a few lottery tickets?