Comments on: The tablet boom: Great for Wi-Fi, but not for carriers http://gigaom.com/2011/12/27/the-tablet-boom-great-for-wi-fi-but-not-for-carriers/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:10:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: JamesS http://gigaom.com/2011/12/27/the-tablet-boom-great-for-wi-fi-but-not-for-carriers/#comment-791124 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:53:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=461233#comment-791124 imho, I simply must agree. In addition, data caps will put a serious limit on kids in schools that switch to tablets.

During he next 24 months, superintendents face the perfect delima of ‘new books’ at $1000 per student or subsidized tablets at $400 and a role-of-the dice on ‘open-souce’ written text books, apps and videos.

Suddenly data caps on those $10 broadband plans mandated by the feds for the poor to have at least 2nd rate access to the internet will be meet within a day of getting a tablet and it’s first mandated os upgrade.

The differance betqween have and have nots is about to have a new fondation on whitch to grow;

data caps = education caps.

paying for packs = education caps

Caping the poor @ poor.

]]> By: scott http://gigaom.com/2011/12/27/the-tablet-boom-great-for-wi-fi-but-not-for-carriers/#comment-788605 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:05:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=461233#comment-788605 the ISP’s are killin us (ripping us off) with the “pay for packets” approach…we’ve been paying x for y but getting less of y so that we’ll have to pay more..boycott by dropping it altogether and they will see the light – right now, it’s what ever the sheeple will pay !

]]> By: Kevin Fitchard http://gigaom.com/2011/12/27/the-tablet-boom-great-for-wi-fi-but-not-for-carriers/#comment-785571 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:09:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=461233#comment-785571 Good point, Virtuous. I think the operators are using tablets as an excuse to veer away from subsidies. Their logic is that consumers are accustomed to paying full price for tablets in their Wi-Fi-only forms, so why not buck the usual subsidy model and avoid taking an upfront loss on every new customer added?

The problem is consumers now expect to steep discount when dealing with an operator, and for some reason the difference in price between a 3G/4G tablet and a Wi-Fi is the cost of a new smartphone. I’m not an industrial designer, but I can’t believe it costs $200 to add LTE to the Samsung Tab 10.1. Even after subsidy (and two year contract) its still more expensive to buy the 4G version than the Wi-Fi version. Like you, V, I hardly view that as a deal.

]]> By: Virtuous http://gigaom.com/2011/12/27/the-tablet-boom-great-for-wi-fi-but-not-for-carriers/#comment-785345 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:27:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=461233#comment-785345 Comsumers are rebelling against the exorbitant cost of tablets with data modems and their associated data plans. The meger subsidies carriers offer for tablets with 2-year contracts is hilarious.

]]> By: techuntangled http://gigaom.com/2011/12/27/the-tablet-boom-great-for-wi-fi-but-not-for-carriers/#comment-785180 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:20:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=461233#comment-785180 While the prediction that 95% of tablet traffic will be wifi based seems very very high, I posit that this will be the case. Even in 2011, WiFi-only tablets are outselling cellular tablets by more than 2 to 1….see http://techuntangled.com/cellular-tablets-losing-out-to-wifi-tablets for more

]]> By: Kevin Fitchard http://gigaom.com/2011/12/27/the-tablet-boom-great-for-wi-fi-but-not-for-carriers/#comment-784990 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:52:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=461233#comment-784990 Thanks R, Sarah. Don’t tell my wife. She actually thinks I speak French…

]]> By: Sarah Campbell http://gigaom.com/2011/12/27/the-tablet-boom-great-for-wi-fi-but-not-for-carriers/#comment-784973 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:38:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=461233#comment-784973 You’re right! Thanks for the heads-up. It’s been fixed.

]]> By: R Compton http://gigaom.com/2011/12/27/the-tablet-boom-great-for-wi-fi-but-not-for-carriers/#comment-784956 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:08:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=461233#comment-784956 In your 2nd paragraph I think you mean “without further ado”; “adieu” means “goodbye” in French.

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