{"id":411866,"date":"2010-03-10T12:30:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T17:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=104895"},"modified":"2010-03-10T12:30:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T17:30:46","slug":"the-power-of-mifi-in-the-tablet-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/411866","title":{"rendered":"The Power of MiFi in the Tablet Era"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Verizon Wireless is trying to cash in on AT&T’s latest toy. Calling Apple’s iPad “an opportunity for VZW,” the nation’s largest carrier in a memo obtained by Engadget<\/a> is coaching its sales staffers to encourage customers to pick up the much-hyped tablet but skip the 3G option and connect it to Verizon’s network with the $100 MiFi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At first glance, it’s a compelling pitch. Consumers can save $130 on the iPad by forgoing AT&T’s troubled cellular network<\/a>, and high-powered users might be swayed by the fact that the MiFi <\/a>can power up to five gadgets simultaneously. But the MiFi is packaged with a 5GB data plan that costs $60 a month, while AT&T offers its unlimited iPad data service for only $30. Regardless, though, the effort is a timely reminder that with its MiFi Verizon be well-positioned to leverage the flood of iPad-like devices <\/a>slated to come to market later this year — even if those gadgets aren’t actually sold by Verizon.<\/p>\n

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Verizon Wireless is trying to cash in on AT&T’s latest toy. Calling Apple’s iPad “an opportunity for VZW,” the nation’s largest carrier in a memo obtained by Engadget is coaching its sales staffers to encourage customers to pick up the much-hyped tablet but skip the 3G option and connect it to Verizon’s network with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}