Report Indicates Mobile Devices Dominate Airport Wi-Fi: iOS Leads the Way
By Dennis Kuba
September 22, 2011
September 22, 2011
- A year ago, laptops made up two-thirds of Wi-Fi connections at airports. Today, mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets comprise 59 percent of the total, reveals new data released this week by Boingo Wireless.
- Boingo suggests that laptops are not going away — in fact, their numbers have doubled since 2007 — it’s simply that mobile devices are proliferating at a faster rate, fueled by the launch of the iPhone in 2007 (Apple’s iOS dominates the mobile segment with 83 percent of total devices on Boingo’s network).
- Not surprisingly, the report suggests similar findings for inflight Wi-Fi, as offered by the likes of Gogo. In the air, iPads make up more than one-third of connections, along with 41 percent for PCs and 20 percent for Macs.
- According to All Things D: “Mobile devices are also gobbling up a lot more data than they did just two years earlier, Boingo said. On a monthly basis, the average mobile device consumed 211 megabytes of data in June, compared with 114 megabytes in May 2009. And the devices are also consuming that data in less time, gulping an average of 8.9 megabytes in every 10 minutes of use, compared with 3.7 megabytes in the same period two years earlier.”
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This is interesting from the “connected” perspective. It says that folks really are changing. The big question is if this essential enabler of change will have commercial and governmental support. Infrastructure seems to be something we’ve decided no one needs to nurture or pay forward.
This is interesting from the “connected” perspective. It says that folks really are changing. The big question is if this essential enabler of change will have commercial and governmental support. Infrastructure seems to be something we’ve decided no one needs to nurture or pay forward.
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