Mobile Broadband Subscriptions on Tablets to Grow 7x in Next Five Years

iPad and other tablets with active mobile broadband accounts will amount to a US$15 billion business. The moble data traffic from tablets will surge to more than 2.7 million Terabytes in 2017. /Strategy Analytics, Aug. 2012

Less then 13% of the global tablet installed base will have active mobile broadband service in 2012, yet in the US, both AT&T and Verizon Wireless saw tablets play a key role in net subscriber additions in 2q2012 this year. Service revenues from tablets will be an important incremental growth source for mobile operators, with global tablet service revenues reaching US$15 billion in 2017. /Strategy Analytics, Aug. 2012