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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

(la data) consommée par les smartphones

English translation:

smartphone data transfers/transmission

Added to glossary by veratek
Apr 19, 2013 10:17
11 yrs ago
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French term

(la data) consommée par les smartphones

French to English Tech/Engineering Telecom(munications)
L’offload Wi-Fi (y compris à domicile) domine les usages data mobiles avec presque 70% de la data consommée par les smartphones dans le monde selon Mobidia.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 smartphone data transfers
3 +2 data transactions
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Proposed translations

+1
9 hrs
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smartphone data transfers

"L’offload Wi-Fi (y compris à domicile) domine les usages data mobiles avec presque 70% de la data consommée par les smartphones dans le monde selon Mobidia."
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"... makes for a dominating part of mobile data usage, representing almost 70% of the smartphone data transfers ...."


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Peer comment(s):
agree chris collister : Take your pick, but Sangro's "data traffic" is a better choice.
20 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "I agree that "transactions" is not really the best choice. I thought of data transmission as well. "
+2
7 mins

data transactions

Although data may be "consumed" by devices, it is rarely described as such in EN. Rather it is "processed" or "exchanged" during each transaction. I would rephrase the sentence as "70% of data transactions are via Smartphones", or something similar.

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Note added at 1 hr (2013-04-19 12:16:11 GMT)
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or perhaps "... with Smartphones (being) responsible for 70% of data traffic..."
Peer comment(s):
agree Tony M : Yes, though do note it is 'wifi offload accounts for 70% of s/ph data transactions...' / LOL! me too... I have friends whose phones are SO smart, they can do almost anything you can think of... except actually make and receive calls ;-)
8 mins
Astonishing figures - I use my 1 euro telephone as a telephone. How quaint.
agree Sandra & Kenneth Grossman : or Smartphones account for 60% of data traffic
4 hrs
Yes, that works - even 70%....
neutral Daryo : "transaction" implies a finite exchange both ways for a defined purpose (as in "an ATM transaction") here it's just about the volume of an undifferentiated data flow - just counting megabytes. KB and MB are not units of "transaction".
9 hrs
Let's not split hairs, but there are alternatives, of course...
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