{"id":656920,"date":"2013-05-08T21:30:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T01:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=496903"},"modified":"2013-05-08T21:30:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T01:30:14","slug":"despite-data-caps-more-consumers-are-adding-tablets-to-mobile-data-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656920","title":{"rendered":"Despite data caps, more consumers are adding tablets to mobile data plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/08\/tablet-mobile-data-plan-growth\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/tablets-montage.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tablet Mobile Data Plan Growth\" title=\"Tablet Mobile Data Plan Growth\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Do <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/07\/23\/lte-tablets-market-share-decline\/\">capped data plans make LTE connectivity a waste for tablets<\/a>? Perhaps, but don&#8217;t tell that to the millions of people who are adding their tablets to their monthly shared plans. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases-test\/strategy-analytics-4g-lte-and-shared-data-plans-to-fuel-8x-growth-in-mobile-broadband-tablet-subscriptions-206566071.html\">New research from Strategy Analytics<\/a> has found that more than 40 million tablets are hooked up to either 3G or 4G mobile networks, roughly double the number of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/10\/25\/sprint-new-4g-lte-data-plans-announced-tablets\/\">tablets that had data plans<\/a> for 3G and 4G networks in 2012. The firm projects that there will be around 165 million tablets on mobile data plans by 2017, an eight-fold increase from the number of tablets on data plans in 2012. Strategy Analytics analyst\u00a0Susan Welsh de Grimaldo notes that &#8220;while direct mobile broadband subscriptions on tablets represent less than 10 percent of the total tablet installed base in 2012, they were a key driver of positive postpaid net additions at leading operators <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/att\">AT&amp;T<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/verizon\">Verizon<\/a> Wireless in Q1 2013.&#8221; The firm&#8217;s full press release is posted below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/08\/tablet-mobile-data-plan-growth\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/fMJ-0IDdwQM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do capped data plans make LTE connectivity a waste for tablets? Perhaps, but don&#8217;t tell that to the millions of people who are adding their tablets to their monthly shared plans. New research from Strategy Analytics has found that more than 40 million tablets are hooked up to either 3G or 4G mobile networks, roughly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656920","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\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}