Ars Technica:
CTIA, the industry group for all wireless providers in America, also reported Thursday that between July 2011 and June 2012, Americans used 1.1 billion gigabytes of mobile data—an increase of 104 percent from the previous period.
The trade group reports there are more mobile phone subscriptions (322 million) than there are Americans (314 million). Of that total, 41 percent are smartphones, and 23 percent are prepaid customers.
Here in the United States, the CTIA says, Americans collectively spent 2.321 trillion minutes on the phone over the last year (a three percent increase over last year), and sent just about as many texts: 2.273 trillion (also an increase of three percent.)
One last figure that might give you pause: the average monthly cell phone bill has fallen slightly to $47.16—meaning each of us, on average, spends $566 per year on our phones.
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CTIA, the industry group for all wireless providers in America, also reported Thursday that between July 2011 and June 2012, Americans used 1.1 billion gigabytes of mobile data—an increase of 104 percent from the previous period.
The trade group reports there are more mobile phone subscriptions (322 million) than there are Americans (314 million). Of that total, 41 percent are smartphones, and 23 percent are prepaid customers.
Here in the United States, the CTIA says, Americans collectively spent 2.321 trillion minutes on the phone over the last year (a three percent increase over last year), and sent just about as many texts: 2.273 trillion (also an increase of three percent.)
One last figure that might give you pause: the average monthly cell phone bill has fallen slightly to $47.16—meaning each of us, on average, spends $566 per year on our phones.
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