{"id":647934,"date":"2013-03-20T21:10:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T01:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=387882"},"modified":"2013-03-20T21:10:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T01:10:54","slug":"study-finds-iphone-owners-to-be-more-data-hungry-than-android-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647934","title":{"rendered":"Study finds iPhone owners to be more data hungry than Android users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/20\/iphone-android-data-usage-study-387882\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"597\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/iphone-5-one-s-01.jpg?w=650&amp;h=597&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"iPhone Android Data Usage Study\" title=\"iPhone 5, Android\" \/><\/a><\/center>Research from NPD Group&#8217;s latest study reveals that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/iphone\">iPhone<\/a> users in the U.S. consume more data on average than <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/android\">Android<\/a> users, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiercewireless.com\/special-reports\/average-android-ios-smartphone-data-use-across-tier-1-wireless-carriers-thr-1\"><em>FierceWireless<\/em> reported<\/a>. The firm examined accounts belonging to 1,500 smartphone owners across Verizon Wireless (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=vz\">VZ<\/a>), AT&amp;T (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=t\">T<\/a>), Sprint (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=s\">S<\/a>) and T-Mobile from October 2012 to\u00a0January\u00a02013. The study found that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aapl\">AAPL<\/a>) handset owners on the four major wireless providers in the U.S. downloaded an average of 1.12 gigabytes per month compared to Android users, who downloaded 0.92 gigabytes\u00a0of data on average per month. Verizon experienced the most iPhone data usage at 1.55 gigabytes, followed by Sprint at 1.30 gigabytes, AT&amp;T with 1.16 gigabytes\u00a0and T-Mobile, which doesn&#8217;t officially carry the iPhone, at 0.49 gigabytes. T-Mobile and Sprint accounted for 1.28 gigabytes\u00a0and 0.95 gigabytes\u00a0of Android data usage, respectively, while AT&amp;T subscribers with Android phones consumed 0.82 gigabytes\u00a0compared to 0.65 gigabytes\u00a0on Verizon.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/rb7imluGuP4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research from NPD Group&#8217;s latest study reveals that iPhone users in the U.S. consume more data on average than Android users, FierceWireless reported. The firm examined accounts belonging to 1,500 smartphone owners across Verizon Wireless (VZ), AT&amp;T (T), Sprint (S) and T-Mobile from October 2012 to\u00a0January\u00a02013. The study found that\u00a0Apple (AAPL) handset owners on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}