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Wireless Week Index: Top Stories by the Numbers

By atesmeh | June 4, 2010

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Here’s a look at some of the numbers making headlines.

Number of iPads sold by Apple after 60 days: 2 million

Amount of data AT&T iPad customers could consume under its former $30 data plans: unlimited.

Amount of data AT&T iPad customers are allotted under new $25 data plans announced this week: 2 GB

Salary increase for workers at tech factory Foxconn after a rash of suicides that left 10 dead: 30 percent

Number of employees at Foxconn: 300,000

Current basic salary at Foxconn’s China plants, which make devices including the iPhone: $130 per month

Percentage of mobile Internet users satisfied with the service’s speed, according to the FCC: 71 percent

Percentage of wired broadband users satisfied with the service’s speed, according to the FCC: 91 percent

Number of tickets sold for the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa: 2.88 million

Total number of matches in the FIFA World Cup: 64

Number of FIFA matches broadcast through Flo TV’s ESPN Mobile to AT&T mobile television subscribers: 64

Number of FIFA matches broadcast through Flo TV to mobile television subscribers at other carriers: 56

Cost of the Flo mobile television service at AT&T: $10

Cost of the Flo mobile television service at Verizon: $13-$15

Cost of the Flo mobile television service at Sprint: free, with a $70 Everything Data plan

Amount of money donated to the National Wildlife Federation’s Gulf Oil Spill Restoration Fund by texting WILDLIFE to 20222: $10

Cost of the oil spill cleanup to BP, as estimated by Credit Suisse: up to $37 billion

Gallons of oil that have poured into the Gulf of Mexico since the BP disaster on April 20, according to government estimates: between 22 million and 35 million

The estimated price of Motricity’s initial public offering in January: $250 million

Motricity’s latest estimate on its IPO: $101 million


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