Funny article, like blackberries they're chowing down resources and forcing operators to upgrade.
In the carriers defense, these are voice networks where data capability was added as a retrofit, and will be until LTE is rolled out on a large scale beginning 2010+.
It’s a data guzzler. Owners use them like minicomputers, which they are, and use them a lot. Not only do iPhone owners download applications, stream music and videos and browse the Web at higher rates than the average smartphone user, but the average iPhone owner can also use 10 times the network capacity used by the average smartphone user.
I believe it. My iPhone is streaming live stock quotes the entire trading day, every day. Although that's not much data, it's constant. There's a ton of streaming apps like pandora as well.
Give us a means, and we will use it until the carriers scream and cry and cut themselves while listening to My Chemical Romance. If I can find a way to make my iPhone spew forth toxic chemicals, you're damn skippy I will do that too.
Yeah, that. Give people the capability to do something and they're going to do it. Don't blame the users, blame the designers - or better yet, blame the people that thought it would be a good idea to allow such a device to populate your network -- and your network alone.
Canelek wrote:If I can find a way to make my iPhone spew forth toxic chemicals, you're damn skippy I will do that too.
As long as it increases your bandwidth usage (indirectly paying my paycheck) I'm all for it. SMS until your thumbs bleed while streaming movies! More small calls are better than a few big ones too, unless you're in motion.
"Life is what happens while you're making plans for later."
