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Released: January 08, 2012
Just 1 percent of mobile users account for half of all data traffic
Source: Maggie Shader, Consumer Reports
Only 1 percent of all mobile subscribers are guilty of gobbling up 50 percent of the world’s bandwidth, according to a new report by the British company Arieso, which advises mobile operators in Africa, Europe and the U.S.
Those hungry data users were, for the most part, predominantly using USB devices or 3G modems, and streaming media, such as movies, could probably be pointed to as the probable activity eating up so much bandwidth.
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