Boingo Wireless, , a pay-per-use wireless provider operating in most US airport just published its statistics over the first five month of the year. It clearly illustrates how the iPhone has changed the mobile internet market and why carriers might have problem to update their infrastructure to face needs of iPhone owners. First, internet wireless browsing usage jumped from 0.1% to 26.1% in two years. This change must have been driven by a popular device? We let you bet:
Over the first 5 month of the year, close to 90% of the smartphone used to browse internet wirelessly was an iPhone. If you add figures corresponding to the use of iPod Touch, Apple device captures 93.9%. Of course, those data are only taking into account wireless access in US airport and might not be fully representative of a more general usage; however, it will for sure
