Average iPhone User Consumes 273MB of Data Monthly

February 15, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Consumer Reports published an analysis of the wireless bills of 100,000 customers and found that that the average iPhone owner uses almost twice as much data as users of most other smartphones, and five times the average amount used by Blackberry owners. And a small proportion ofiPhone users upload and download three or more times what the average iPhone owner uses, with one in twenty-five using upwards of a gigabyte per month. Read more…

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AT&T Continues To Temper Expectations For iPhone Tethering in 2009

October 15, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

9 to 5 Mac reports that it has received a note from an AT&T spokesperson asking the site to remove a reference suggesting that the company would support Internet tethering via the iPhone by the end of 2009.

We believed it was coming later this year, until we got a note from an AT&T spokeman. He told us to correct a post that said AT&T will be delivering tethering in 2009. Specifically, he said (his font color, not ours):

“Just reading again – where did anyone promise tethering by EOY? Where did you see that? We promised MMS by end of summer Read more…

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Is AT&T about to clamp down on heaviest iPhone data users?

October 09, 2009 :: Posted by - Thomas :: Category - News

Data Usage

Yesterday at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment 2009 conference, both FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega gave keynote addresses. While Genachowski stressed the importance of developing “sensible rules of the road” for wireless network neutrality, de la Vega strongly urged that wireless networks must be managed, repeatedly suggesting that net neutrality regulation would let a few heavy data users “crowd out the many” on its 3G data networks. Read more…

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