Agreed. To my mind, the larger issue is what cell carriers rape us all for when it comes to data plans.
You have a smart phone? Data plan. You have a 4G tablet? Yet another data plan. Have a hot spot? Still ANOTHER data plan.
It’s freakin’ highway robbery.....not to mention that each of those data plans is limited to maybe a few gigs, tops, without incurring ridiculous overage charges (read: “theft”).
Somebody, somewhere, is going to offer a complete-package data plan tied to the USER/CUSTOMER.....NOT to the devices he or she owns. Whoever that is....should offer unlimited data as well.....and they’ll make a killing. It’s way, way past time to get past these ridiculously anachronistic data plan billing models.
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See my post. It’s just a matter of time. It’s going to be interesting when the kids don’t have their fast, free, infinite internet...we in the boonies already know which way the wind blows.
Actually, with tethering, you only need one - on your phone. Just use a WiFi iPad. I bought the iPad 3 WiFi and like it - as a significant upgrade over my iPad 1. If I owned an iPad 2 it would have been a much harder sell.
LTE on the iPad seems to be an unnecessary extravagance at this time. Just wait until the iPhone 5 comes out and use it a a personal hotspot. Most people have their phones with them almost all the time and their iPads with them only part of the time, so keeping the data service on the phone only makes more economic sense.