On 5/6/2011 9:32 PM, jcdill wrote:
> On 06/05/11 11:33 AM, George wrote:
>
>> Just what are Steven's "facts" except his personal opinion that WiFI is
>> ubiquitous and a cherry picked study from the Cisco marketing
>> department? Clearly he thinks anyone who has different experiences that
>> his gospel is simply wrong.
>
> A) I'm not agreeing (or disagreeing) with the study.
>
> I think (but I could be mistaken) that his position is that he posted
> "actual data" and if you want to refute it, you should refute it with
> data, not anecdotes. (The plural of anecdotes is not data.)

And vice-versa. I don't think we'll be seeing any actual data from any
of them any time soon. It should be pointed out that the Cisco study is
a) from a company that has no vested interest in whether data is Wi-Fi
or 3G, since their backbone equipment is necessary in either case, and
b) corroborates data from several other sources as well (and of course
no one has any evidence that the Cisco study is inaccurate).

<http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/quantifying-the-mobile-data-tsunami-and-its-implications/?>

<http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/ekits/Cisco_VNI_Global_Mobile_Data_Traffic_Forecast_2010 _2015.pdf>
(Trend 5 on page 10, Trend 7 on page 14)

<http://www.chetansharma.com/usmarketupdate2010.htm>

The least reliable and least scientific study, from a company whose
business it is to sell their services directly to the end users, states
that Verzion smart phones (mostly Android) used 485.0 MB/month, while
AT&T iPhone users used 344.3 MB/month
<http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-iphone-smartphone-data-usage-2010-10>.