U.S. consumers used more than 1.1 trillion megabytes of mobile...
U.S. consumers used more than 1.1 trillion megabytes of mobile data from July 2011 to June 2012, a 104 percent increase over the previous 12-month period, said a CTIA survey released Thursday. While consumers are using more data, voice and…
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text than ever before, the average monthly bill went down by $0.07 to $47.16 per month, CTIA said. By June, smartphones made up 131 million -- 41 percent -- of the nearly 322 million wireless subscriber connections in the U.S., while tablet numbers stood at 22 million, or about 17 percent of all U.S. wireless connections, CTIA said. “These figures illustrate Americans’ growing appetite for more mobile data and the wireless industry’s need for more spectrum to meet their demands,” CTIA said in a news release. CTIA said 28,641 cell sites were added in the U.S. over the course of the survey period, for a total of 285,561. CTIA said it got the survey data from companies serving 97 percent of all estimated wireless subscriber connections in the U.S. (http://xrl.us/bntovv).