I either connect it to my home PC or my workstation at work via USB and load up any music, movies or study materials. And when I am actually using it at either of those locations I have WiFi that gives me the access I need. When I travel I have pretty much whatever I need already on the tablet. If I had the option to buy my Nexus 7, or one with cellular access at $100 more, I'd still choose this option. If I absolutely wanted to, I could tether to my work phone, but I'd only really do that for location services or to browse, but I've just not been in that situation to need that.