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iPhone data usage - takes minutes?
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Nevada (Not Las Vegas)
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When you are using the data plan on your iPhone, does it take up minutes also? If so, the 450 minute plan seems entirely inadequate.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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AT&T's data is unlimited. Are you talking about a different carrier?
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Nevada (Not Las Vegas)
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no about AT&T in the United States.
My contract with Verizon is almost up and I am considering getting an iPhone but I don't want to get stuck with a big bill in order to use all the functionality of the phone.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
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The unlimited data aspect is one of the big selling points of the plan. It's a pretty well known feature.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Teaneck, NJ
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nope, unlimited data is just that. if it also used minutes somehow it wouldn't be unlimited.
I have the 450 plan and my bills have all been accurate.
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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okay that sounds good, thanks
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2005
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How is the data? I have only really heard complaints about the limited availability and the slow speeds with AT&T
Any insight?
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Moderator  Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Atlanta, GA
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It's relatively slow, but it's useful. Emails work well, surfing the web can be painful at times but not terrible. It's certainly not any sort of 'broadband' connection.
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Nevada (Not Las Vegas)
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How does it compare to the Verizon Data plan? I have a friend with a Palm Verizon phone with full internet capability and it is painfully slow. This however was in a smaller metro area where data coverage may not have been great.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Washington DC
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Depends on the network. As you said, your friend was in a smaller metro area. In an area where Verizon has EV-DO coverage, Verizon's data network will kick the pants of AT&T's EDGE network. Outside of EV-DO coverage they're probably about the same.
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Nevada (Not Las Vegas)
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Does the data work anywhere that there is cellular service or is it only in designated metro areas? Is the data only available where there is 3g service?
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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The iPhone will have data access as long as you're on the AT&T EDGE network, which encompasses virtually the entire service area. 3G is not required; and in fact, you can't even make use of 3G on the iPhone.
1xRTT is to EV-DO as EDGE is to UMTS/HSDPA/3G (CDMA carriers are 1x/EV versus GSM/WCDMA which are EDGE/HSDPA). 1xRTT, which is what your friend was probably using, is slightly slower than EDGE, but they are both 2G/2.5G technology, each being much slower than their modern counterparts.
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2005
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thanks for that info, the data plan sounds reasonable. I will probably be using wi-fi internet most of the time anyway.
Has anyone used an iPhone with LEAP wi-fi authentication? Mac OSX has LEAP so I am assuming an iPhone will have it also.
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