Comments on: RIM Only Has 10% of Mobile Web Traffic Worldwide

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Balsillie Explains Why BlackBerry is the Most Profitable for Carriers | — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:32:24 +0000

[...] that goes to and from your BlackBerry by funneling it through their infrastructure first. As the AdMob report showed last month RIM uses a margin of what other devices like the iPhone uses. That means that since carriers have [...]

By: Troy D. Brown

Troy D. Brown — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:29:38 +0000

I think RIM needs an award for keeping data usage so low. At the developer conference they made it clear that a good mobile platform is one that uses very little data. They have kicked butt at getting to this point. It is true the iPhone requires about 20 times the amount of data as a BlackBerry. I say good job.

By: mrvtx

mrvtx — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:32:01 +0000

Might also be because BlackBerries are primarily business devices, and iPhones are less so.

Be interesting to see what e-mail volumes are on BB VS iPhone.

By: Amir Saad

Amir Saad — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:53:46 +0000

I agree. On the Bold, you can use multiple web browsers and they all have awesome compressions unlike the iPhone.
The factor is 20x…do the math.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:58:38 +0000

Does this compensate for Opera Mini users?

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:56:09 +0000

Those statistics are so off due entirely to one thing… RIM compresses it’s web traffic data and the iToy does not. ATT’s network is so overloaded due to the iToy and all its uncompressed data! I forgot where I read it, but it takes roughly 20 Bolds to equal the data usage of one iToy. I think if you took the compression factor into account that the figures would be a lot closer.