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iPad 3G Data Usage for May

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Aaron Nelsen

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My first 30 days with my iPad 3G have come to a close and AT&T has sent me a confirmation email letting me know I’ve been charged for the next 30 days, not a nasty letter saying I use too much data. Even if that may be true.

I’ll let this little screenshot tell the story:

Yes, that’s 16.2GBs of sweet bandwidth usage, not bad, right? Guess this means AT&T wasn’t lying about unlimited data… At least for now. Though I should note that I did cheat a bit and enabled the downloading of apps over 20MB from the App Store, which likely accounts for a few gigs of usage.

Fellow iPad 3G owners (or iPhone owners) what’s your bandwidth usage look like for the month of May?

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6 responses to “iPad 3G Data Usage for May”

  1. volerikan Avatar
    volerikan

    Unfortunately, they’re ending unlimited data after June 7th. Unless of course you keep the unlimited data auto-renewing every month. Hoping my micro-sim comes before that happens, for the iPad data on iPhone thing… Currently I really only use 400-500mb a month, but VOIP can easily double that. Still under they’re 2gb cap, but I’m planning on starting using MyWi and get Xbox Live, my PCs, etc through the data.

    AT&T’s full of BS
    http://gizmodo.com/5553418/att-just-killed-unlimited-wireless-data-and-screwed-everybody-in-the-process

    1. Aaron Nelsen Avatar
      Aaron Nelsen

      True enough, now I have to keep using excessive amounts of data purely out of spite.

      Best of luck getting your SIM in time!

      1. volerikan Avatar
        volerikan

        Sounds like something I would do. The SIM was shipped yesterday from Texas, going to New York. I’d imagine it’d get here Friday or Saturday, cutting it close. Even if I did go over that limit, it’s just another $10 for another 1gb of data, still cheaper than what I pay now. But unlimited still seems the best option.

  2. roberto Avatar
    roberto

    I purposely stopped watching Netflix-over-3G at 4.8GB so that I don’t get any surprises. How many GB to watch a season of Lost?
    Any comments on whether the iPad will activate only one microSIM, or ATT will remotely kill your microsim #1?

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