http://gigaom.com/2011/09/22/stat-shot-phones-tablets-use-airport-wi-fi-more-than-laptops/ Sat, 25 May 2013 04:40:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2011/09/22/stat-shot-phones-tablets-use-airport-wi-fi-more-than-laptops/#comment-657621 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:20:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=410018#comment-657621 There may be some skewing based on that, but as I read it, Boingo is measuring unique device connections for the percentage, i.e.: how many devices by platform connect to their network. Boingo’s exact wording is: “Percentage of mobile devices associating with Boingo airport Wi-Fi network, by type.” That would have nothing to do with the amount of Wi-Fi used as I interpret it.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/09/22/stat-shot-phones-tablets-use-airport-wi-fi-more-than-laptops/#comment-657596 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:06:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=410018#comment-657596 This looks like another case of iOS useage being over-estimated, due to the behaviour of its email client. When you are at an airport and check your email using iOS, images are enabled by default and get loaded. This is unlike e.g. GMail on Android, or Outlook on your laptop. This creates a lot of additional connections and data volume on the boingo Wifi, but there is no extra real use. See:
http://blog.marketingxd.com/post/10551622231/have-mobile-devices-overtaken-laptops-at-airports

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