You understand how we\’ve good reason to believe that Verizon Wireless is at the least mulling the switch to capped / tiered data plans? Yeah. An independent Validas research report has found that, between January and should of this year (pre-AT&T caps), Verizon\’s stable of smartphones collectively averaged more data consumption per thirty days that Apple\’s iPhone. Needless to say, this quite literally compares an Apple to every smartphone on Verizon save for BlackBerries, but given how much squalling we\’ve heard from Ma Bell about this rampant iPhone data usage, we\’re pleased to work out a number of facts that spin things the opposite direction. The company\’s full report is due out in September, but investigation of over 20,000 wireless bills found that VZW smartphones \” are consuming more wireless data than AT&T iPhones by a ratio of roughly 1.25:1,\” with the typical Verizon user eating up 421MB per thirty days and the common iPhone user consuming 338MB monthly. It also points out that \” nearly twice as many Verizon Wireless smartphone users are consuming 500MB to 1GB per thirty days compared to AT&T iPhone users.\” You learn something new everyday, right?
VZW Smartphones Using 25% More Data on Average than AT&T iPhones
HOUSTON, July 26 /PRNewswire/ — An ongoing study of wireless data utilization, conducted by Validas, shows that Verizon Wireless Smartphones are consuming more wireless data than AT&T iPhones by a ratio of roughly 1.25:1. Average monthly wireless data consumption for Verizon Wireless Smartphones is 421 megabytes monthly, versus 338 megabytes per thirty days for iPhones.
\” Averages might be misleading because while you plot data users in a distribution, you quickly see that there isn’t a typical user – they’re spread across a broad range,\” says Ed Finegold, Executive Vp-Analytics, for Validas. \” The most important detail in this study that drives the common is that, by percentage, nearly twice as many Verizon Wireless Smartphone users are consuming 500 megabytes to at least one gigabyte per thirty days compared to AT&T iPhone users,\” Finegold says. More than 11 percent of VZW Smartphone users fall into this category, versus just 5.6 percent of iPhone users.
Validas also finds that slightly more than 54 percent of VZW Smartphones consume lower than 200 MB monthly, versus slightly more than 52 percent of iPhones. Nearly 46 percent of VZW Smartphones consume more than 200 MB per 30 days, versus nearly 48 percent of iPhones. But, more than 4 percent of VZW Smartphones consume more than 2 gigabytes per thirty days, rather than just 1.6 percent of iPhones. Only 2/10ths of 1 percent of both VZW Smartphones and iPhones use more than 5 GBs per thirty days. Further, a virtually even percentage of users consume no data at all in a given month – 3.4 percent for Verizon Wireless Smartphones versus 2.9 percent for AT&T iPhones.
The information for this analysis was derived from more than 20,000 consumer wireless bills dated between January and will of 2010. \” Smartphones\” deliberately excludes BlackBerry devices which, as a result of data compression techniques, do not follow similar data consumption patterns to those of iPhones and other Smartphones.
For additional information on and highlights from Validas\’ forthcoming wireless data consumption study, visit http://blog.myvalidas.com/.
About Validas
Validas® provides consumers, businesses and government agencies with a straightforward, secure online service that optimizes wireless bills and cuts base line costs by a regular of 20 to 40 percent. Founded by wireless industry experts, Validas eliminates wireless billing and rate plan confusion to improve customer deal with wireless users. The net-based wireless bill analysis software leverages patent-pending algorithms, processes and PDF scanning capabilities to deliver powerful business intelligence in seconds. For additional info visit http://www.validas.com.
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