iPhone Owners Use Their Wi-Fi Connection More Than Android Phone Owners Do

[Maura]

According to a new Device Essentials survey from comScore, reported on today by Mobile Entertainment, considerably more iPhone users in the UK use Wi-Fi as well as the mobile web to go online than Android users, with 87% of iPhone owners doing so, and just 57% of Android phone users. In the US the figures are similar, with 71% of iPhone owners connecting to the internet via both Wi-Fi and mobile web, and just 32% of Android phone owners, leaving 68% of Android phone owners in the US connecting to the mobile web. There could be various reasons why iPhone owners use Wi-Fi to connect to the Internet more often than Android phone owners. ComScore’s president of Operator and Mobile Solutions, Serge Matta, has this to say on the subject, according to AppleInsider:

“In the UK, the scarcity of unlimited data plans and higher incidence of smartphone pre-paid contracts with a pay-as-you-go data model likely contributes to data offloading among users wanting to economise their mobile usage.”

The report also found that in the UK, customers using Vodafone, Telfonica and Orange were more likely to use Wi-Fi than customers of other operators, and the same goes for AT&T in the US.

Source: iPhone owners connect to wi-fi more than Android phone owners | Mobile content industry news | Mobile Entertainment
iPhone owners use Wi-Fi more than Android owners in U.S. and U.K.