Nielsen Wire reported that smartphone data usage has increased exponentially driven by Apple iOS and Android, while prices have declined 46%, averaging 8 cents a megabyte from 14 cents a megabyte.
Android smartphones and iPhone owners use the most data: 582 MBs per month
for the average Android owner and 492 MBs for the average iPhone user.
Smartphone data usage per month has grown 89% from 230 megabytes (MB) in Q1 2010 to 435 MB in Q1 2011.
Data usage for the top 10 percent of smartphone users (90th percentile) is up 109 percent, while the top 1 percent (99th percentile) has grown their usage by an astonishing 155 percent from 1.8GB in Q1 2010 to over 4.6GB in Q1 2011.