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There has always been a 10MB limit on downloads that has nothing to do with
your "Unlimited" Data Plan - The Unlimited Data Plan means you can consume
all the data you want per month, not per download. For what it is worth,
this limit was supposed to be lifted with 3.0 and was highly publicized, but
never was.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 23:39, Eric Payne <jericpayne@gmail.com> wrote:

> Tuesday morning, I had to restore my iPhone.
>
> In the middle of downloading some apps in iTunes, Comcast experienced an
> outage in my area; that outage lasted for over 3 hours.
>
> "No problem," I thought, "I'll just download them through my phone,
> itself."
>
> The first couple of apps - "A Perfect Browser" and "Ms Pac-Man" -
> downloaded and installed with no problem.
>
> Then I went to get "Dig-Dug Remix," and I got the following message:
> "This App is over 10MB. Please use your Wi-Fi connection or your iTunes
> to download," and the AppStore app closed.
>
> I tried twice more, and got the same error message, so I called AT&T.
>
> Turns out, the "unlimited" data plan is limited, according to AT&T, "for
> (my) convenience, as (my) phone would be tied up for over an hour" in
> downloading that app.
>
> For my "inconvenience," AT&T credited my account $25... but only after I
> pointed out to them that, come Wednesday, I could switch from AT&T to
> T-Mobile (or some other carried that used SIM card technology), and if
> AT&T attempted to recover an "early termination fee" for cancellation, I
> would sue, citing that the "unlimited data plan" they sold me was not,
> actually, unlimited.
>
> Eric Payne
> Lawrenceville, GA
>
>
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