Mobile Users' Amazing Demands on World's Bandwidth
One large study shows:
For November 2011 over a 24 hours period--
Top 1% use 50% of World's Bandwidth
Top 10% use 90%,
In 2009, top 3% used 40%
Now, top 3% use 70%.
Of extreme users (still mobile users)
64% used laptops (with air cards, dongles, etc.)
33% used smartphones
03% used iPads.
See:
"Top 1% of Mobile Users Consume Half of World’s Bandwidth, and Gap Is Growing"
NYT, By KEVIN J. O’BRIEN, Published: January 5, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/te....html?_r=1&hpw
... and yes the bandwidth is giving out.