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Top 10% of mobile users are using 90% of the bandwidth

Written by Ironpaper | Jan 8, 2012 3:17:38 AM

The NYTimes explored a recent study by a mobile advisement company, Arieso, and explained that the "mobile airwaves are being divided in a lopsided manner."

According the the studies by Arieso, ten percent of the world's mobile users are consuming about 90% of the bandwidth. As you drill into the mobile data further, about 1 percent of consumers generating half of all mobile web traffic. The survey by  Arieso also found that 64% of the biggest web users were armed with a laptop, a third were sporting a smartphone and 3% possessed an iPad.