(CNET) -- Verizon Wireless smartphone customers use 25 percent more data than AT&T iPhone customers, thanks in large part to new Verizon's new Android smartphones, a recent study indicates. Validas, a company that analyzes cell phone bills and usage for consumers and corporate customers, analyzed 20,000 consumer phone bills between January and May of 2010 and discovered that Verizon Wireless smartphone customers consume on average about 421 megabytes per month. Meanwhile, AT&T iPhone users consume roughly 25 percent less data, or about 338 megabytes per month. The full Validas report will be published on September 1. The comparison between smartphone data usage on Verizon's network and iPhone data usage on AT&T's network is important to note, because iPhone users have typically been viewed as the heaviest data users in the entire mobile market.
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AT&T iPhone users consume 25 percent less data than Verizon Wireless customers
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iPhone users were typically viewed as the heaviest data users in the mobile market
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Verizon's network hasn't yet faced any major hiccups due to the onslaught of new traffic
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This is in contrast to @placeholder's network, which, over the past three years since the iPhone was launched, has beencriticized for dropping calls and offering slower than expected data download speedson their iPhones in some parts of the country.
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This is in contrast to AT&T's network, which, over the past three years since the @placeholder was launched, has beencriticized for dropping calls and offering slower than expected data download speedson their iPhones in some parts of the country.
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That said, the total number of cell phone customers -- including those using feature phones and smartphones -- using Verizon data services is much less than the number of customers using these services on @placeholder's network.
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For example, 71.2 percent of all @placeholder cell phone subscribers, which includes users of smartphones like the iPhone as well as feature phones, use data services, while only 43 percent of all Verizon cell phone users subscribe to data services.
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For example, 71.2 percent of all AT&T cell phone subscribers, which includes users of smartphones like the @placeholder as well as feature phones, use data services, while only 43 percent of all Verizon cell phone users subscribe to data services.
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Even though fewer Verizon cell phone subscribers are using data services, individually, they are consuming roughly the same amount of data each month as the average @placeholder customer.
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Verizon has twice as many of those customers than @placeholder has, Finegold said.