"Total U.S. mobile data traffic to exceed 1 exabyte (billion gigabytes) by end of 2010"
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/11/07/total-u-s-mobile-data-traffic-to-exceed-1-exabyte-billion-gigabytes-by-end-of-2010/
Would you believe me if I said that the United States was only second in the world for per capita mobile data usage? It’s shocking. I had the assumption that the United States would be number one, but Sweden is holding on to the top spot. Despite this, the statistics that come with being number two in the world are still amazing. This article explains how in quarter three of this year, the data market grew 25% and brought in $14 billion in service revenue. Smartphones are leading this growth while tablets and wireless eReaders have had a significant impact on the data market.
Verizon and AT&T are the leading service providers of mobile data with 70% of the market data services revenues. What caught my attention in this article though was that mobile data “usage is expected to exceed 1 exabyte, or one billion gigabytes.”
To say the least, I believe that the United States is a connected nation. As a college student myself, and one who has infatuation with technology, we are people who want it quick, fast and right away. If you walk down chancellor’s walk here at UNCW, half of the people you see are either listening to their iPod, which most now have wifi capabilities, or using their phone via text. Technology just makes it easier for us to connect with others because its so easy and quick. I believe that the downfall of this ease of connection is that it has cause us to forget how to communicate person to person. I have to admit I am guilty as well of this high mobile data usage phenomenon, and that it makes life so much easier that I can just click one button on my phone to check email, Facebook or Twitter. It’s hard to let go of our connections, but if we constantly are, including myself, we will lose touch with reality.
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