MocoSpace, the mobile equivalent of MySpace who dormantly registered more than 11 million, released a report surveying their users to reveal people are twice as likely to buy an iPhone and Android phone however Android traffic is up nearly 40% in the first quarter 2010. Key findings:

• Android phone traffic increased 39.9% in Q1
• 30% of traditional feature phone users plan to purchase a smartphone in 2010
• iPhone is 2 times more attractive than Android for potential smartphone buyers
• Traditional feature phone usage decreased by 22%
• iPhone/Android sessions are 27.8% longer than feature phone sessions
• Mobile users log-in almost twice as often as PC users
• iPhone/Android users are 72% more likely to buy virtual currency than feature phone users

From: http://www.androidtapp.com/yeah-users-prefer-iphone-over-android-but-traffic-up-40-stats/

In tests and now in regular service, usage drops off considerably when travelers must pay for the service. Alaska Airlines even tested charging just $1. The result: a lot fewer laptops, BlackBerrys and iPhones signed on.

Aircell says…hotspots are…averaging 35 megabytes transmitted per user per hour, or two- to three-times typical usage of a hotspot on the ground.

Virgin America does say about 12% to 15% of passengers across its fleet are using the service. That’s likely higher than industry averages since Virgin America has a high proportion of cross-country flights in its schedule-plus, the airline offers power ports at all seats, making it easier to use Wi-Fi. Flights between Boston and San Francisco, heavily populated with technology-industry workers, see 15% to 20% usage,

On average, 8% to 10% of travelers need to pay for Internet access for the service providers to be profitable within five years

From: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574374571364228440.html

• In the first quarter of 2010, usage was almost 500 percent higher than the year-ago quarter: 53m sessions in all.
• Starbucks and McDonald’s represent somewhere north of 18,000 of the more than 20,000 hotspots in the network.
• In the fourth quarter of 2009, AT&T had 27m qualifying DSL, fiber, remote business, and smartphone subscribers. Three months later, that number is 32m.
• 69 percent of connections in the last quarter came from smartphones and what it describes as “other integrated devices” (I’m not sure what that category is and it’s not defined–the B&N Nook?), up from 35 percent in the same quarter in 2009.

From: http://wifinetnews.com/archives/2010/04/atts_wi-fi_usage_report_omits_switch_to_free_by_most_locatio.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+wifinetnews_atom+(Wi-Fi+Networking+News)