Techs & Trends
Cell hot spots cannabilize carrier-based mobile broadband?
hey folks,
i've been reading about the new "cell phone as a wifi hotspot" offerings from cradlepoint, wmvwifirouter, and taproot systems.
my question - how will carriers react to potential customers declining a carrier's mobile broadband plan and instead those customers just go with a cell phone hotspot?
sprint's mobile bb costs $60/mon (unlimited), for example.
will carriers simply limit phones from being used as such hotspots (i'm referring specifically to when the cell phone owner is already subscribing to that carrier's
"data" plan, such as sprint's Power Vision, etc)?
why would any carrier allow its mobile bb service to be cannabilized by its users creating their own cell phones hotspots?
won't buying a cell hotspot de...
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i've been reading about the new "cell phone as a wifi hotspot" offerings from cradlepoint, wmvwifirouter, and taproot systems.
my question - how will carriers react to potential customers declining a carrier's mobile broadband plan and instead those customers just go with a cell phone hotspot?
sprint's mobile bb costs $60/mon (unlimited), for example.
will carriers simply limit phones from being used as such hotspots (i'm referring specifically to when the cell phone owner is already subscribing to that carrier's
"data" plan, such as sprint's Power Vision, etc)?
why would any carrier allow its mobile bb service to be cannabilized by its users creating their own cell phones hotspots?
won't buying a cell hotspot de...
(continues)
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