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Verizon & Sprint garnered more data usage than AT&T last year
One would think AT&T would be the carrier to look at when you consider the network that's known to  transfer the most amount of data across their network; especially with data hungry iPhone owners eating up their fair share. Interestingly enough, AT&T wasn't the actual leader in that category, but both Verizon and Sprint managed to stay on top of the number two wireless carrier all of last year. Most of the blame can be attributed to AT&T's network issues that hindered them from being placed higher on the list for carrying the most data traffic in 2009. According to ABI Research, both Sprint and Verizon topped AT&T – Big Red took the number one spot with  Sprint coming in at second; when combined, the two carriers generated 63 percent of the US market's mobile network data traffic. In reality, it's not the myriad of smartphones that cause the most amount of data to be transferred. Instead, Verizon's and Sprint's laptop mobile data connections far exceeded the numbers put up by AT&T – strangely enough, lower data-consuming business customers consisted a good majority of Sprint's and Verizon's laptop connections. Looking at projected trends, Verizon is expected to keep its spot at number one over the course of the next five years while AT&T's traffic will increase steadily and eventually take the runner up position by 2012. T-Mobile unfortunately takes the fourth spot followed by a bunch of other mobile operators – obviously being late to the 3G game can have a drastic affect on these numbers.

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1. PapaJay224 posted on 20 Oct 2010, 01:45

So much for talking and browsing at the same time, looks like its always been about, Location, location, location...and CDMA helps too. Theres a Map for that!

39. omarc26 posted on 12 Apr 2010, 22:21

for all those saying cdma is old technology and sucks ..... take that mutha fuckers !! cdma is much much more reliable than gsm... who cares if u cant browse the web n talk at the same time ... honestly not many people do that...

42. fur123 posted on 13 Apr 2010, 01:07

I always thought it was funny that in the commercial with Luke Wilson, he got online to make plans for the game and the point was you could do that and talk at the same time... but he didn't say anything while he was using the phone's browser.

44. cellgeek82 posted on 13 Apr 2010, 01:53

I don't know why people ever talked about CDMA being old, who cares how old it is? If you read about how CDMA works you'll see its a lot better technology and offers better security. It was created during the war for the military and phone companies adopted it for phone use. CDMA is also American so if you take pride in America ditch your GSM crap. Ya know regular landline is the oldest phone technology now, why don't we just ditch it? HA! yeah right. May CDMA live! Who cares about GSM?

2. BrokenImaege posted on 12 Apr 2010, 17:02

CDMA companies taking out the GSM ones.... Love it!!!

3. sprintpcs7032 posted on 12 Apr 2010, 17:06

I've Been Saying It For Two Years Vzw And Sprint Are Better Than Any U.S. Based Gsm Carrier, Bet Apple Wishes They Chose Vzw Or Sprint For The IPhone... Ha Ha Ha

9. whocares posted on 12 Apr 2010, 17:32

its because of the data connect cards not the phones...

13. Ray posted on 12 Apr 2010, 17:42

lol Its also the phones..

14. ecml posted on 12 Apr 2010, 17:44

But either way ATT sucks

18. sprintpcs7032 posted on 12 Apr 2010, 17:48

See Now That's A Good Point, How Much Data Do You'll Use A Month I Average 12GB Pandora, Youtube, That's On My Razr ve20

19. whocares posted on 12 Apr 2010, 17:50

true but think about it. sprint is half the size of verizon yet it has more data use? its because of data cards.

21. sprintpcs7032 posted on 12 Apr 2010, 18:05

Quick Question How Do You Delete Profiles I've Looked EveryWhere And Can't Find The Answer..

23. iHateCrapple posted on 12 Apr 2010, 18:19

How the hell do you run 12GB on a RAZR? You sure its not 120MG or something? I consider myself a BlackBerry whore and i'm still under the 10GB mark...

24. iHateCrapple posted on 12 Apr 2010, 18:20

120MB*

25. whocares posted on 12 Apr 2010, 18:20

im not sure man :( sry and thats a ton of data lol

29. sprintpcs7032 posted on 12 Apr 2010, 18:26

believe It Or Not, It's Cause While The Phone Is Charging I'll Watch Sprint tv, When I wake Up Stream Youtube Movies And Play Pandora Til I Go To Bed Three Batteries Later And You Reach 12GB This Is My Total Last Month 12,436,211,KB This Month I Already used 2,981,436,KB Just Double Checked This is Right

31. sprintpcs7032 posted on 12 Apr 2010, 18:38

120MB Would Be 132,000KB

33. sprintpcs7032 posted on 12 Apr 2010, 18:44

1 gigabyte = 1 048 576 kilobytes so damn i only used 11gigs

45. jundibasam posted on 13 Apr 2010, 06:35

not saying I doubt you, but I stream radio all day while working, download abuot 10 movies a month, and watch a lot of You Tube and live TV on my Verizon HTC TP2 while working, i've never been able to get more than 8 GB in a month. Granted, most of my usage is 8-10 hours a day, 5 days a week while i'm working, so are you doing it like 24 hours a day? Thats the only way I can see it. A friend of mine had 10 GB one month on his Droid, but he streamed radio almost 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and downloads a few movies a month.

47. sprintpcs7032 posted on 13 Apr 2010, 07:01

I work Seven Days A week,4-6Hrs Plus free time And I also Use Data,While It's Charging, I Use Sprint Voicesms, Sprint tv,pandora youtube,3gpsearch,myxer,sprint picturemail, and you can glitch most sprint phones to send more than 1MB of data for videos,plus i use bolt browser which doesn't compress the page it's full html with flash 8 And Thats All On evde Rev a. I Use less than 150Mins A month.

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