He added that most customers were choosing the larger, more expensive data packages; one-third of them were choosing packages of 10 gigabytes or more.
The shared data plan combined with the fast LTE network, which allows people to stream videos and download media at high speed, will compel customers to buy more expensive data packages, he said.
In the process however, rivals like the privately held Bloomberg, which competes with Reuters for sophisticated analytical data, and Thomson Financial, offering cheaper and more basic data packages, made significant inroads as Reuters floundered with a wide variety of different technologies and pricing systems.
In August, Nasdaq introduced a new, more comprehensive data package that costs about $25,000 a month.
Philae has more than 8,000 data packages still stored in its memory, which scientists hope to receive when the probe next communicates with Earth.
The more intelligence on web users Google can harvest, the more data it can package up and sell to companies who want to sell you stuff.
What is needed are not more reports, more lists of publications, more software packages, and more data.
Facebook has already rolled out its Free Basic offering of giveaway data packages in more than 20 countries, prompting howls from net neutrality advocates.
BOOST YOUR DATA PACKAGE It has recently become possible to get more out of those international data packages, thanks to new mobile tools that condense downloaded data.
The same data showed that 346 million Indian mobile users had subscribed to data packages, with more than half of all internet users in the country accessing the web via their mobile phone.
