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How can we enjoy our iPhone's if we are limited to the data we use?

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DBZmusicboy01

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I wish there was only the unlimited option...
It's 2012
and they are going in reverse the phone companies I mean back in 2007 there was barely anything big to do on the iPhone but now in 2012 we have so many new things to use the date for...and it's stupid how we can only be limited to 2GB per month and what sucks is that we have to worry about how much data we use everyday and why should LTE be important if we would be limited to the data we use? Faster speeds so we can worry even faster.
We should protest or something. Billion dollar companies and they don't even want to give us unlimited data. :mad:
 
2 months go my wife used 1MB of her 2GB plan. Yes, megabyte. Last month it was 100MB. Most I've ever used is 1GB of my unlimited and that was tethering for 3 weeks after the Joplin tornado killed our Internet. I feel like I use mine a lot to stream Pandora and iTunes match.
 
Use wifi as much as possible and pay the phone company as little as possible. If they loose enough money over time maybe the deplorable data business models will change.
 
batotman said:
2 months go my wife used 1MB of her 2GB plan. Yes, megabyte. Last month it was 100MB. Most I've ever used is 1GB of my unlimited and that was tethering for 3 weeks after the Joplin tornado killed our Internet. I feel like I use mine a lot to stream Pandora and iTunes match.
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Same here... Wife uses a few hundred MBs and I never exceed 2 GBs and I have unlimited. I feel like I enjoy my phone plenty.
 
Use google voice and wifi and it costs nothing. Tether to a Verizon iPad and it costs $30 a month for 2 GBS
 
you can only be limited on how many times in a month you want to pay for the extra data... How do you think got their billions.
 
Wifi have you heard of it? I have a 400mb data plan here and everywhere I go there is wifi. So I'm good at enjoying my iPhone since 2007 even with the first iPhone to the 3G I never had data before.
 
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I agree. It's just like my leased car. It has a mileage cap. Therefore, I can't enjoy it at all. Nope. Not even a little bit. In fact, it makes me angry just to drive it ay all and use up my precious allotment. I should protest. I'm going to another forum now to post about it.
 
Im with OP on this one. I use on average around 3 gigs a month, and thats just because I limit what I do so I dont go over my 3 gig cap. I feel like we should at the very least have an option to pay extra and have unlimited.
 
The big joke here, that no one seems to get, is just as everyone rolls out LTE, they are throttling back data limits and doing away with 'unlimited' plans.

Anyone else see the irony in this? The cell carriers are sucking everyone in to this vortex of higher data charges and everyone is like: "YEAH, BRING ON LTE!!!". Great, now you can burn through your limited data plan in 3 days.

For those of you who say you don't use much data at all, try streaming your own music from your cloud service or watch a couple online movies. You'll be over your limit in about 8 hours.
 
Sedrick said:
The big joke here, that no one seems to get, is just as everyone rolls out LTE, they are throttling back data limits and doing away with 'unlimited' plans.

Anyone else see the irony in this? The cell carriers are sucking everyone in to this vortex of higher data charges and everyone is like: "YEAH, BRING ON LTE!!!". Great, now you can burn through your limited data plan in 3 days.

For those of you who say you don't use much data at all, try streaming your own music from your cloud service or watch a couple online movies. You'll be over your limit in about 8 hours.
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Precisely why i store movies and music on my phone.
Not only am i completely non-reliant on an internet connection, i also don't have to worry about data limits, having to wait for something to buffer, etc.
I really can't believe why people use icloud.
I mean come on! How little intelligence do you have that you are willing to pay apple to access music/videos you already own!!!
And i know there is streaming from places such as netflix.
again, just download the movie you want and store it physically on your phone.

Guess what, i can listen to all my music and watch the films I want, and it won't affect even 1kb of my data allowance.
Thank god i was born with brains unlike some people here!
 
samxool said:
I mean come on! How little intelligence do you have that you are willing to pay apple to access music/videos you already own!!!
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You don't have to pay Apple anything to do that. It doesn't take any intelligence to research something before you post.

samxool said:
And i know there is streaming from places such as netflix.
again, just download the movie you want and store it physically on your phone.
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That's not at all cost effective. It would cost thousands of dollars to buy the items instead.

I assume you refer to illegally downloading the content instead.

Aside from that, an iPhone just doesn't have enough storage.

samxool said:
Guess what, i can listen to all my music and watch the films I want, and it won't affect even 1kb of my data allowance.

Thank god i was born with brains unlike some people here!
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I think that you are the one with no brain, either because you can't see that other people's needs are different to yours or that you don't consider the legality of what you're doing.
 
lol you should see the DATA plan for tablets here in dk

the maximum you can get as a DATA plan 500mb of data (per month) but most other phone companies have 200mb and there are no other options... now thats a joke.
 
knimetimmy said:
I feel like we should at the very least have an option to pay extra and have unlimited.
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You certainly can. You can pay to have as much as you want. On AT&T it's $10 per GB.

This thread is like complaining that cars will run out of gas. In both cases no one is saying that you can't go fill it up again.
 
I don't know why people complain so much about limited data. I have unlimited 3G with Verizon and I have never used more than 600MB in one month. My monthly average is around 350MB to 450MB. Why? Because everywhere I go, with the exception of work, I have Wi-Fi. Is it really that difficult for a lot of people to find Wi-Fi hotspots?
 
DBZmusicboy01 said:
I wish there was only the unlimited option...
It's 2012
and they are going in reverse the phone companies I mean back in 2007 there was barely anything big to do on the iPhone but now in 2012 we have so many new things to use the date for...and it's stupid how we can only be limited to 2GB per month and what sucks is that we have to worry about how much data we use everyday and why should LTE be important if we would be limited to the data we use? Faster speeds so we can worry even faster.
We should protest or something. Billion dollar companies and they don't even want to give us unlimited data. :mad:
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Unlimited data is a thing of the past. Many people are enjoying their iPhones with limited data plans. They are the future and unlimited is the past. Stop whining and get with it. There is nothing anyone can do. These phone companies can do whatever they want, when they want. Its all written in the contract to cover them, just as AT&T stated they can throttle from day 1.

If you use more data than PAY UP FOR IT. I am a little shocked that this move came this early. Seems like it was just yesterday VZW stated anyone who upgrades can retain their unlimited but I guess thats out the window.

AT&T's announcement will come next.
 
Tea-Aholic said:
You Americans don't know what it's like here in Australia. Only 200MB on my plan. :(
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Exactly. Americans are lazy people who want stuff for free or dirt cheap.

Though I am sorry you have guys have only 200Mb plans and LTE. Could burn through that in a minute.
 
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