Appleinfo: Re: [apple-iphone] at&t next plans

dimanche 12 octobre 2014

Re: [apple-iphone] at&t next plans

Ellen,

do you and your family members track your data usage?

You say that you are on a grandfathered unlimited data plan, that you want to keep, but don't use much data. Please quantify "much".

I used to travel for work, and would be away from home for months at a time. My two highest months data usage were 595,000 & 798,000 kilobits or about 0.07 & 0.095 gigabits. Even with a grandfathered unlimited data plan, I am sure that AT&T would slow your data rate long before 30 GB, since in the past they have done that at 3 GB.

Even if you use a map app and Pandora for 30 days, 24/7, I don't think you could use 30 GB of data in a month.

That your daughter goes over almost every month, means that she needs to increase her data plan. Many map apps, update the maps over data, rather than installs the maps on phone (huge download). So if your son used one of those map apps, he also use data, that way also. You can use the app DataMan, to track the data usage on each iPhone if your bill does not break it out by account.

So if you don't track your data, and keep notes of when you have changes in your usage, you have no way to predict your future usage. For example, since 2009, I normally use much less than 80,000 KB of data monthly, but when I travel for work, I normally use under 300,000 KB. But then again, I normally have fewer than 100 text messages per month.

Brent

On Oct 11, 2014, at 8:32 PM, Ellen Lerner listserves-1@rochester.rr.com [apple-iphone] wrote:

I mentioned the next plan to my son, who is on my plan but at some point I would like off my plan (as well as my daughter), but he said to me he would not recommend my
giving up the unconditional plan as long as it exists under the grandfather clause. I tend to agree with this. It's possible that the next plan will chance in time as well.
There is no permanence it seems. I'd consider switching if my unlimited plan is suddenly defunct but I'm not sure I want to make that decision yet. I might even consider it once my adult children are off my play. I don't use all that much data, but why should I have to worry about it like I have to worry about so many other little things these days? I don't have my ipad hooked up to the internet, and really I don't miss it b/c I hardly take it out of the house. I always have my phone with me, so it's more important for me to have that hooked up rather than my ipad. It is easier to take my phone places than my ipad, and once I get the 6+ I'm hoping it will be easier to see also! I rarely travel, but if I do, then I could probably go over that 30gb limit if let's say I was watching my TV or listening to pandora. But I'm not planning any big trips now. I know my son used pandora when he traveled home by car - abut 1800 miles (a guess) and he went over his data, which granted is minimal. My daughter goes over almost every month, even though I've told her to shut down some of her apps that she doesn't use, but whether or not she does that is hard to say.

ELLEN