Data Overtakes Voice in Cellphone Use

Release Date ‎May 14, 2010‎ in Wired News

 
   

Apps Data Surpasses Voice Data on Mobile Networks

PC Magazine - Jamie Lendino - 15 May, 2010
Although almost 90 percent of US households now have a cell phone, the amount of voice minutes consumed has stayed relatively flat. But for the first time, ...

Data Overtakes Voice in Cellphone Use

Wired News - Charlie Sorrel - ‎May 14, 2010‎
The new cellphone killer app is data. Spring Nextel boss Dan Hesse says that voice-use has dropped to less than half of cellphone network ...

If you're still using your cellphone for voice calls, you're behind the times

IntoMobile (blog) - 15 May, 2010
Are you still using that high-powered smartphone in your pocket more for making voice calls than for using data services like surfing the web, ...

Cell Phones Being Used Less and Less as Phones

iSmashPhone (blog) - 15 May, 2010
Can't say it's much of a surprise, but the New York Times reports that cell phones are now being used for data than for calls. Between texting, twitter ...

Cell Phone Data Surpasses Voice

GadgetCrave.com - Chris Weiss - 15 May, 2010
This news seems like it was inevitable: cell phones are now being used more for data than for calls. With mobile Web, email, texting and other smartphone ...

Cell phone Data Usage has Increased Significantly

KTLA - 15 May, 2010
Most people assume that text messaging and data usage is much higher than cell phone calls nowadays. But how much? CTIA said there were over 1.5 trillion ...

Data use overtakes voice on cellphones

Electronista (blog) - 15 May, 2010
Data use overtook voice on cellphones for the first time, according to CTIA data. Internet access and text messaging occupied more data on US carriers' ...

Talk Is Cheap For More Consumers

MediaPost Publications (blog) - Gavin O'Malley - 15 May, 2010
Time was when a person used a phone for calls. Yet, for the first time in the United States, the amount of data in text, e-mail messages, streaming video, ...

Could bad quality be behind the huge drop in voice calls?

VentureBeat - 15 May, 2010
First, the average amount of time the average American spends talking on the phone has fallen. Second, the amount of data in text, email messages, ...

Interest in text messaging and prepaid phones surges

NASDAQ - Steve Monfort - 15 May, 2010
Consumers are shunning voice service in favor of texts and escaping contract cell phone plans for contract-free prepaid subscriptions, reports indicate. ...

As Data Overtakes Voice, Mobile Costs Rise

GigaOm (blog) - Kevin C. Tofel - 15 May, 2010
Chances are you're using your cellphone more for data purposes than voice calls these days. ...

Cell Phones All about Data These Days

IT Business Edge (blog) - Ainsley Jones - ‎May 14, 2010‎
By date: Cell phones have long been destined to switch from mobile phones loaded with bells and whistles to an Internet-capable mobile devices that also ...

Cell phone data use rises as voice use levels off

Examiner.com - ‎May 14, 2010‎
A New York Times report shows that, whether it's because their iPhones keep dropping calls, or that, as we've noted before, it's hard to dial on a ...

Cell phone users using more data than phone

TECH.BLORGE.com - Michael W. Jones - ‎May 14, 2010‎
Even though a lot of people worldwide are giving up their land lines in favor of a cellular-only lifestyle, the cell talk minutes used ...

Fast Analysis: Data Consumption Surpasses Voice Calling by US Cell Users

Fast Company - Kit Eaton - ‎May 14, 2010‎
There's a subtle, but potentially hugely important, change happening in cell phone use in the US: For 2009 figures, the amount of digital ...

Smartphones to blame for shrinking voice call margins

Geek.com - John Brownlee - ‎May 14, 2010‎
With smartphones and data plans getting cheaper by the month and with the rise of alternative ways like Twitter, email, and Facebook to communicate on your ...

Traditional Cellphone Usage Dying A Long, Painful Death (For Carriers, Anyway)

Gizmodo.com (blog) - ‎May 14, 2010‎
Whether you blame it on Twitter, texts, or the inability to make a phone call on a touchscreen phone, the US is moving away from voice calls, ...

 

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