15 dollars for 3 days of unlimited 3G connectivity would be a good deal as well. Hotels rarely have WiFi service that is even faster than 3G. And this would allow you to use it away from your hotel room as well. I go to Chicago throughout the year and what I've noticed is, there's a WiFi everywhere, but it usually costs money.
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AT&T Posts Fact Sheet Regarding iPad 3G Data Service
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Here's how it works (as I understand it), assume that you originally start your plan on January 1st regardless of your original choice:
Option 1: Buy the Unlimited plan.
$30 / 30 days
Option 2: Buy the 250MB plan, and use less than that every 30 days.
$15 / 30 days (your second payment is on Jan 31, your third on March 1)
Option 3: Buy the 250MB plan, and use it up every 20 days.
$15 / 20 days (Your second payment is on Jan 21, your third on March 10)
Option 4: Buy the 250MB plan, and use it up in 10 days, the upgrade to the Unlimited plan.
$15 / 10 days, then $30 / 30 days (Your second payment is on Jan 11, your third on Feb 10, your fourth on March 12)
In this case, you underestimated your requirements.
Do you need an US creditcard to activate the monthly subscription? Will visit the US and buy the 3G iPad. Want to use the 3G connection during my stay in the US, which will be two weeks.
And what are the odds the iPad would have a driver that would support the 3G card? Even on OSX its a separate download.
I'm getting this on Friday. 
Don't need it until late May, for a convention in San Diego, but I want to try it now.
Don't need it until late May, for a convention in San Diego, but I want to try it now.
See it this way, you can buy 250 MB that however will expire after 30 days. If you need more than 250 MB within 30 days, you can either buy a 30 day unlimited plan (and naturally you should wait until the day you have actually used up your 250 MB) OR you can start another 250 MB 30 day plan. Obviously, if you need more than two 250 MB plans per month, unlimited would be cheaper.
If it sets to renew automatically and you tell it not to will it cancel the service there or will it let your 30 days run the course and then stop it?
You're comparing Voice with Data. Try doing a Data to Data comparison then get back to us.
I'm hoping that AT&T will begin offering the same tiered data plan for the iPhone. If I don't need an "unlimited" $30 plan for my iPad I certainly don't need one for my iPhone. If anything, I need a $15/250MB plan for my iPhone and a $30/unlimited plan for my iPad.
I hate the 14.99 for 250mb plan only because they still have it tied to 1 month. Why not just pay for 250mb of usage and if it takes 2 months to use it, why am I charged twice?
It seems kind of silly that it has to auto renew. I paid for the 250mb, why does it essentially expire at the end of the month? We can rollover cell minutes on AT&T, why not data?
It seems kind of silly that it has to auto renew. I paid for the 250mb, why does it essentially expire at the end of the month? We can rollover cell minutes on AT&T, why not data?
Seriously.
IMO, this AT&T deal on 3G service is the killer app for the iPad. $30/month, no contract, for "unlimited" is a a great deal - usually that costs $60/month with a K. But the fact that they even offer a $15/month plan is icing on the cake.
I use some 3G features on my iPhone every day, but 24 days into my 30 day billing period, I've only used 96 MB of data.
The same reason I pay $200 a month for cable and internet. Even though I only watch 15 out of the 1000 channels available to me, I still pay for all of them. Same goes for the internet. I pay a fee every month whether I use it or not.
Had to think about option 3 for a moment, so every time you pay you're restarting the 30-day clock again. In option 3, you're starting the clock again every 20 days.
oh ok. i must have heard wrong then.
i though steve said this was like loading 10 websites or listening to a 10 mintue podcast.
AT&T on iPad
Everyone is worried about what data plan they should get.
Has anyone thought about what apps will be allowed to run on 3G?
I know most will, but what about Netflix and the like?
I personally doubt it, so I have a Verizon MIFI wireless access point to use, the iPad sees it as a WIFI hotspot and ALL apps run everywhere I go..
Everyone is worried about what data plan they should get.
Has anyone thought about what apps will be allowed to run on 3G?
I know most will, but what about Netflix and the like?
I personally doubt it, so I have a Verizon MIFI wireless access point to use, the iPad sees it as a WIFI hotspot and ALL apps run everywhere I go..
Free ATT Wifi!
Free access to ATT Wifi is a nice plus at least I was not expecting. I will use that! Ralph
Free access to ATT Wifi is a nice plus at least I was not expecting. I will use that! Ralph