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Mobile Cloud Storage: Average Monthly Rates at $79.0 for Bundled and $4.9 for Unbundled

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The Mobile Cloud Storage becomes an essential component as consumers look for maintenance-free method to store the enormous amounts of data they churn out everyday. The smartphones that come with camera and video recording applications are encouraging people to make their own videos and snap thousands of pictures throughout the year. The availability of high-speed data connection and applications such as YouTube and Pininterest enable these content to be shared worldwide. With these technologies accessible to so many people, the amount of content that circulates on the internet is just growing phenomenally and that is where cloud storage, especially mobile cloud becomes a must-have feature for subscribers who wish to store these content in easy-to-access storage spaces. 

 

Tariff Consultancy Ltd (TCL), released its latest edition of pricing service, the 'Mobile Cloud Storage Tracker and Analysis Service' that surveys the new and fast growing mobile cloud storage market. In this first edition TCL provides analysis of some 50 bundled mobile cloud storage offers and some 66 stand-alone mobile cloud storage offers. According to the survey, Operators have been adding Mobile Cloud Storage as part of their bundling plans, granting smartphone users ready access to this storage as well as offering them on a stand-alone basis. 

  

Key findings from the report include: 

Bundled Mobile Cloud Storage pricing ranges from USD $19.67 per month up to USD $262 per month. The bundled Mobile Cloud Storage average price in the survey is USD $79 per month – with bundles including unlimited calls and SMS, with Mobile Data (of up to 10 GB per month).  The most common bundled pricing range is from USD $61 to USD $80 per month.

Unbundled Mobile Cloud Storage. The most common pricing for stand-alone (unbundled) Mobile Cloud Storage is in the range from USD $1 up to USD $5 per month (which accounts for 38 per cent of all offers).  There are 15 offers priced for free.  The average stand-alone Mobile Cloud Storage price in the survey is USD $4.8 per month.

  

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