“While much of the buzz around Apple’s iPad is how the device may changing the publishing industry, there is a chance it could change the wireless industry,” Haywood reports.
Typically data offered by wireless companies comes in one of two ways:
• The wireless carriers offers subsidized smartphones at a discount that require a two-year contract.
• A customer can buy a wireless data device for laptops and other gadgets for $60 a month on a two-year contract.
Haywood reports, “But since the iPad is not subsidized by AT&T, there is no contract. For $15 a month, iPad users can have 250 MB of 3G data via AT&T. The ‘unlimited’ data plan (though most ‘unlimited’ plans have 5 GB limits) is available for $30.
“Users can turn on and off the wireless service from the iPad. So if someone needed the service during a vacation, they could pay $30 for the month and then turn the service off for the rest of the year and rely on Wi-Fi to connect,” Haywood reports. “The arrangement could be a game changer.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]