Costs them nothing?
Ummm, let's see here - I think I still have the original FRG22D update that was sent out over the airwaves....
Let's say it is around 45 MB. let's also say that the current number of retail subscribers is "85.2 million retail customers", as taken from
http://www.crn.com/blogs-op-ed/the-...;jsessionid=pLPrDtvPu4XU9Ordj29R5A**.ecappj01 dated July 200
9. Finally, seeing Android is sitting at ~32% of all VZW phones, but that is not truly fair as 2.2 has not been out that long - only since, say, June. So, in June, according to
Nielsen: 32 Percent Of New Smartphone Owners Choose Android Phones Android was sitting pretty at 27% of all phones. Let's assume that carried over for VZW as well, so we have 85 Million phones and 27% of them Android phones. Now, if we look at the current distribution of Android 2.2 from
Platform Versions | Android Developers we see that it is sitting at around 33%. Now, this entails all Android phones, so let's cut that number down a bit, to, say, 10% of all VZW phones being on FroYo and having received it via OTA.
85 Million * 2.7% = 2,295,000 phones. Let's err on the safe side again and take roughly half of that, at, say, 1 million phones that have gotten the update so far.
That's 45
million MB of data that they have had to push out to our phones
for free.
You bet yer ass it ain't free for them....and this is just VZW.