Among the possibilities: Bait-and-switch heavy data users off the unlimited plans they signed up for.
Increasing smartphone penetration helped drive postpaid ARPA, as smartphone users are usually heavy data users as well.
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Since smartphone users are usually heavy data users as well, this should continue to help increase postpaid ARPUs further.
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But, the question remained: how exactly would it keep mobile data users honest?
The Clearwire system is aimed not at voice but at heavy data users.
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In response to consumer concerns about caps on heavy data users, Comcast is revising its rules for high-speed Internet subscribers.
PLEASE, PLEASE make sure we take advantage of this heads up and get our heavy data users set up on these unlimited plans before they change.
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Due to data caps, many data users might be tempted to go for lower priced plans, thus slowing down data revenue growth relative to our expectations.
All the same, light data users in the True North will be glad to know they don't have to be relegated to 3G to save a few dollars.
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The US authorities froze Megaupload's assets, leaving it unable to pay for the upkeep of the data users had uploaded to its farm of more than 1, 000 servers.
As before, a store can see public data users attach to their profile, such as name, profile photo, home city, bio, and links to Twitter and Facebook accounts.
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And, data usage is highly skewed: a small group of very intensive data users tie up the network and degrade service for moderate users, who paid the same price.
The unlimited carrier's network 4G upgrade has resulted in the introduction of two new Premium Data offerings for heavy data users looking for the ultimate in 4G data speeds and affordability.
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The reason why smartphones are subsidized by carriers in return for long-term contracts is that smartphone users are widely recognized as heavy data users and bring a higher life-time value to carriers.
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Mr. Seidenberg said Wednesday he expects the number of data users to jump to about 75% of Verizon's contract customers over the next three to four years from 23% today, regardless of the device.
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And secondly, rather than paying extra charges, some of the heavy data users might shift to higher-priced tiers that are exempt from overage charges and offer much higher speed and, thus, a better user experience.
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But the Internet may not help count people who do not traditionally respond to the census, said Stephen Dienstfrey, past president of the Association of Public Data Users and co-chairman of the APDU's policy committee.
Doubling down on user satisfaction is the most important thing Facebook can do, Bhatia said, even if it occasionally means passing up chances to max out the amount it could earn on the data users provide.
Chinese telcos, especially China Unicom first came out with the strategy of selling low cost smartphones to attract more 3G subscribers. 3G subscribers are typically heavy data users and help China Unicom in increasing its average revenue per user.
Based on the latest data from Ratemizer application users, Finnish Android phone users were consuming twice as much data as iPhone users at the end of 2012.
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Big data lets users process large amounts of data very fast.
Smartphones are smart because they enable users to access and manipulate their DATA. Users can accomplish work as a result.
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"Connected Data allows users to maintain privacy and control of their data, while enabling them to share and protect that data with other locations, " said Geoff Barrall, Founder and CEO.
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While Facebook said it wouldn't pass these websites any personal data about users, users and privacy advocates grew nervous when they learned that the data about the Likes would be public.
Cooper worries that DoubleClick's massive amount of private data about users' online behavior could be linked to Google's reams of search data to create detailed profiles of individuals.
The report said Google should do more to let users see what information was held about them, provide tools to manage this data and take more care to ensure it did not store too much data about users.
Google has the most data on users and Facebook may be second in that category.
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Mr. Marini said that his company seeks minimal data about users and their friends.
One reason is the popularity of online auctions, where advertisers buy data about users' Web browsing.
She noted that Google won't be collecting any more data about users than it was before.
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