T-Mobile USA isn’t providing any comparison data from previous time periods or splitting the total of 450,000 T-Mobile HotSpot paying customers from March through May into kinds of subscribers — pay-as-you-go, monthly, annual contract. But the company did offer some use stats:
– 3 million logins in past three months compared to 8 million total in 2004 total
– the average log-in this year is running 64 minutes compared to 45 minutes in 2004 and 23 minutes in 2003.
T-Mobile USA opted for massive WiFi deployment instead of the more expensive upgrades needed for high-speed mobile access via “3G.” Joe Sims, VP & GM, T-Mobile HotSpot, told the WSJ: “We want to match bandwidth to the application to user behavior. We don’t think users are clamoring for ultrahigh bandwidth at 90 miles an hour going down the highway.”
Also from AP via Yahoo
Subscriber content
?
Subscriber content comes from Gigaom Research, bridging the gap between breaking news and long-tail research. Visit any of our reports to learn more and subscribe.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Comments have been disabled for this post