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Carrier How much is your iPad plan?
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$25 bucks for 1GB of data to use over three months. Perfect for me and very, very limited cell data needs.
That is a decent plan. Throw in the free 200 mb from T-Mobile each month, one can get approximately 1/2GB a month for $8 with those 2 plans combined.
$0/month.
It's called tethering to your iPhone (in Europe)
This. I tether my iPhone to my rMini for free. I have unlimited data on a month to month expired contract for my iPhone and I pay $81/month.
Okay how do you do this tethering thing? I have unlisted data through ATT on both my iPhone and iPad. Thinking about getting an iPad for my husband doing the tether for him. Is this possible? How do I set this up?
Tethering allows you to use your smartphone's data allowance to connect Wi-Fi devices. So, for example, you could connect a Wi-Fi only iPad or a MacBook through the phone. You could even do both at the same time. The actual setting is something that is built into the iPhone's settings menu; you'll see it as one of the menu options. The only problem is that in the U.S., carriers tend to charge extra for this service although it adds ZERO additional costs to the mobile carriers. I live in Europe, where this service is free. I mean I'm already paying for the data, and I feel like how I want to use this data is up to me. It's very greedy for American companies to charge for this, but that's the way it is. Apparently they charge extra for this because they know if you surf on your laptop, you'll consume a lot more data, which means more strain on their mobile network. I hope this helps a bit.
I'm paying 10 dollars a month for my iPad, though I bumped up the quota from 4GB to 6GB since I now have 2 phones and the iPad. I may drop that after I monitor the situation but I think I've been getting pretty close to 4GB most months. That bump up also increased my bill by 10.
So you can effectively say that my iPad increased my monthly bill by 20 bucks a month
So you can effectively say that my iPad increased my monthly bill by 20 bucks a month
I tried to go into their website to try to set this up but not helpful. Probably need to pay extra. I'm not going there - already paying for unlimited data on both my iPad and phone. Thankfully I'm heavily discounted. Somehow got on to some decent plans years ago with heavy discounts and don't want to change anything to lose the unlimited or discounts.
Ah, you said 12GB/m which that isn't, it's 12GB over 12 months. Thought it was a bit cheap!
I'm with Telus in Canada. All our tablet plans are "Flex Data," which means that your monthly bill automatically moves up a tier based on how much data you use. With Telus, here's their rate schedule:
Up to 10MB is $5
Up to 100MB is $10
Up to 1GB is $20
Up to 3GB is $35
Up to 5GB is $50
It's pretty expensive, but compared to what they charge for regular phone data (a regular cell phone plan with 3GB of data is between $85-$105) it's quite reasonable.
It's funny how terrible the data pricing situation in Canada really is. Most of the people posting in this thread talk about tethering their wifi devices to their phone to use their cheap cellular data. In fact I do the opposite - I'm using my iPad Mini as a WiFi hotspot and tethering my other devices to it when I'm on the go, simply because regular (non-tablet) cell phone data is so prohibitively expensive.
The retina iPad Mini makes a great hotspot, by the way. Using my phone as a hotspot would drain it in a matter of hours - the iPad lasts more than a full day as a hotspot without even breaking a sweat.
Up to 10MB is $5
Up to 100MB is $10
Up to 1GB is $20
Up to 3GB is $35
Up to 5GB is $50
It's pretty expensive, but compared to what they charge for regular phone data (a regular cell phone plan with 3GB of data is between $85-$105) it's quite reasonable.
It's funny how terrible the data pricing situation in Canada really is. Most of the people posting in this thread talk about tethering their wifi devices to their phone to use their cheap cellular data. In fact I do the opposite - I'm using my iPad Mini as a WiFi hotspot and tethering my other devices to it when I'm on the go, simply because regular (non-tablet) cell phone data is so prohibitively expensive.
The retina iPad Mini makes a great hotspot, by the way. Using my phone as a hotspot would drain it in a matter of hours - the iPad lasts more than a full day as a hotspot without even breaking a sweat.
My phone is jailbroken and that allows me to tether w/o the approval of the carriers. It is my data after all and I am using it as I want. I only tether when I do not have a wifi network and need my iPad. I kept my old plan because it was way cheaper than the share everything plans. The downside is I cannot buy subsidized phones. Still, it is cheaper for me to buy the phone at full retail and keep my old plan than sign for a new share plan and get a subsidized phone.
This was my original plan until I realized it made way more sense to move up a tier to $30 for 2.5gb
34$ (25) for 16go in LTE. The French carrier Bouygues has a huge competitive advantage since they were using 1800Mhz frequency for GSM and were allowed to reuse it for LTE.
There is a 32go plan for 54$ (40).
There is a 32go plan for 54$ (40).
I have iPad 3 on Verizon 4G LTE for $30 per month at 2GB for the past 2 years. They tell me I must go into a store and change the sim if I want to downgrade from $30/2GB to $20/1GB per month. Why? (Something about switching from postpaid to prepaid plans.)
My biggest month so far was just under 1GB and mostly about 500MB/month because I only use it on 4G LTE when mobile, a few days each month, or a few hours per week, on the average, on 4G. Otherwise, WiFi most of the time.
If I can find a good deal on a 128GB iPad Air on #cybermonday or #blackfriday (Target? Walmart? BestBuy? Staples? Other?) then I will go for Verizon but I want a different data plan. I see Verizon offers 1GB for $20 per month, but what is this $5 plan? Do tell us more?
Ah, you said 12GB/m which that isn't, it's 12GB over 12 months. Thought it was a bit cheap!
No, read the terms, it's refreshed every month
Data Calculator*
How much data will you need?
12GB a month will give you:
Send 12,000 Outlook/HTML Emails
Surf the Web for 120 hours
Download 60 four minute videos
Download 384 four minute music tracks
*Approximate calculation
Ahh reading more, looks like you get 12 x 1GB/month. Bad wording on their site, can see people falling for this.