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[jalaram]

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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

AT&T?s right to be the exclusive carrier for iPhone in the United States has been a golden ticket for the wireless company. The average iPhone owner pays AT&T $2,000 during his two-year contract ? roughly twice the amount of the average mobile phone customer. But at the same time the iPhone has become an Achilles? heel for the company. ?It?s been a challenging year for us,? said John Donovan, the chief technology officer of AT&T. ?Overnight we?re seeing a radical shift in how people are using their phones,? he said. ?There?s just no parallel for the demand.?

I'm not sure why this is such a surprise for them. If you charge people a ton more for iPhone data access, I would imagine that they're going to use it more to justify the cost.

 

[ViviTheMage]

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granted, you actually put it in the right section.

 

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AT&T charges a ton more for the iPhone data plan? I thought $30 was typical. Coming from Verizon, I actually thought it was cheap (though Verizon has now split their plans into expensive plans for business users and cheaper plans for everyone else). The comparison that shows that iPhone users pay twice as much as average is because the average cell phone user doesn't have a data plan. I don't think the price people pay is a factor in how much data people use, it's the type of people who use the iPhone.

 

[jalaram]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
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http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2331746&enterthread=y

granted, you actually put it in the right section.

Thanks for the positive note, but you're right. I should've searched the garbage bin (errr ATOT) first. 🙂