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When I initially heard about the new plans, I was somewhat excited, thinking
that I could get the phone bill down $15 each month because 200 mb should be
more than enough to do me-- after all, I do not stream video that often
(hate the choppiness, but every once in a while will pull an mlb condensed
game or highlight), and only listen to audio for an hour or so each day
during the week. Then I looked at my usage for the last three months, and
found out that streaming audio is enough to make me one of those people AT&T
hates-- two months I was over, and another two I was under but REALLY
close-- continuing unlimited data is best for me!

Danni

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Piper <pcdoc_99@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> It is my opinion the unless you sure all you need is the $15.00 plan don't
> give up the unlimited untill you have too.
>
> --- In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com <apple-iphone%40yahoogroups.com>, Jim
> Saklad <jimdoc@...> wrote:
> >
> > > With AT&T new data plans am I correct in saying that if your one who
> downloads a lot of music, movies and videos to watch and listen to you
> should get the higher priced package but if you stream and transfer and do
> not tether you should be OK on the lower plan ?
> >
> >
> > Obviously, the data that needs to be transferred from the server to the
> iPhone is the same whether downloaded (as a podcast, a song, or a movie) or
> streamed live.
> >
> > The significant difference is that you can plan ahead and download the
> movies, podcasts, etc., over wifi, then transfer them to the iPhone, and not
> use 3G bandwidth at all.
> >
> > Whereas if you stream, you are running up 3G megabytes very rapidly.
> >
> > One of our three iPhones is used to stream radio (while she
> semi-mindlessly enters billing data on the computer at work), and her
> monthly usage is up around 1.5-1.9 GB regularly. The 10 GB of (mostly old)
> podcasts on *my* iPhone, on the other hand, are downloaded to my Mac and
> sync'd to the iPhone, and therefore *my* monthly usage hovers around 200 MB.
> >
> > --
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Jim Saklad mailto:jimdoc@...

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