Verizon With AT&T Taps Cheap Tablets to Grow as Phone Sales Lag
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Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. are practically giving away tablets this holiday season to eke out customer growth as the market for mobile phones maxes out.
Verizon this month is offering free tablets with a $10-a-month service fee and AT&T had a recent offer for a 99-cent Amazon Kindle Fire HDX. In the past four quarters, tablets made up 61 percent of the total monthly subscriber growth at the top four U.S. carriers, according to data compiled by Recon Analytics LLC.