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If you stream audio you must have unlimited or it will cost you more.

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Roger R. Prokic
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On Jun 7, 2010, at 4:28 PM, Danni Todd <stitchingdragon@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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