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According to Meraki, the mesh equipment provider, the iPhone now accounts for 20% of devices using the Meraki network in San Francisco, up from 6% a year ago. The company says that 150,000 devices have accessed the network, so that’s a lot of iPhones!

My take: not only are there more iPhones out there, but many people also prefer to use Wi-Fi given the frequent AT&T outages and the slow cellular network, which isn’t really optimized for heavy data use. Indeed lawsuits have been filed against Apple and AT&T for misrepresenting the capability of both the phone and the network. Can AT&T increase capacity on its network fast enough to meet this demand?

Click below to see a map of Meraki’s SF network.