The new plans mean an iPhone becomes a much more affordable option for kids, lower-end users, and basically anyone who was turned off by the requirement to spend a mandatory $30 per month on data access, whether you used it a lot or a little.
Friday, June 18, 2010
AT&T's New Smartphone Plans Could Send iPhone And BlackBerry Sales Through The Roof
AT&T's cheaper tiers of mobile data subscriptions, especially a $15 a month entry-level plan, could boost smartphone sales by making them more affordable to a much bigger market, which in turn should drive bigger unit sales and activations for Apple, Research In Motion, and other companies that sell smartphones at AT&T.
The new plans mean an iPhone becomes a much more affordable option for kids, lower-end users, and basically anyone who was turned off by the requirement to spend a mandatory $30 per month on data access, whether you used it a lot or a little.
The new plans mean an iPhone becomes a much more affordable option for kids, lower-end users, and basically anyone who was turned off by the requirement to spend a mandatory $30 per month on data access, whether you used it a lot or a little.
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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