The biggest U.S. Mobile River operators are coiffure up more new data connections to equipment such as the iPad and political machine - to - machine networks than to traditional phones , an industry advisor said Tuesday .

The bulk of Modern plus to the mobile services of both AT&T and Verizon Wireless represent “ connected devices , ” which includes non - phone consumer product such as tablets , vitamin E - reader and netbooks , as well as M2 M ( machine - to - machine ) unit of measurement such as m readers , according to Chetan Sharma , beginner and Chief Executive of Chetan Sharma Consulting . The company released a 2d - one-quarter account on peregrine data on Tuesday .

Those addition by AT&T and Verizon avail to drive stay rapid growth in the second quarter as U.S. mobile datum taxation increase 6 percent from the previous twenty-five percent and 22 per centum from a yr originally . Total data point revenue surpassed $ 13.2 billion for the quarter .

Carriers are looking beyond traditional postpaid phone contract for the gross to make up for their expanding 3 gravitational constant ( third - genesis ) and emerge 4 G networks , and consumers and enterprises are buy into that idea , according to Sharma ’s statistics . For the first time , mobile penetration for the intact U.S. population exceeded 100 percent in the second poop , if both connected devices and M2 M link are include , Sharma sound out . For the nation ’s mobile operators as a whole , data point services bring in in 31 percent of revenue in the second quarter .

Apple announced last month that it had sell 3.27 million iPads , which can use AT&T ’s 3 G meshwork if they are equipped with 3G. Meanwhile , Verizon has been sharply summate new non - phone connections , ending the second one-quarter with 7.7 million such links , including both M2 M systems and equipment such as netbooks . Together , AT&T and Verizon accounted for 75 percentage of the gains in nomadic data tax revenue in the fourth , Sharma said .

The amount of wandering data used also continue to soar , harmonize to Sharma . The average mobile datum exploiter in the U.S. consumed 230 M per month in the twenty-five percent , up 50 per centum in just six month , he said .

Verizon Wireless remained the world ’s largest mobile operator by data revenue , taking in somewhat more than Japan ’s NTT DoCoMo , which had ruled on this touchstone until this year .