[Electronics-talk] Trying to Understand Data Plans

[Gail the U. S. Male]

Hi, my answers follow each of your questions, to make it simpler. If you 
have any other questions, you can e-mail me, or send me a private message 
off the list, and I will give you my phone number, so I can explain things 
better.
my e-mail is
gailcrowe1959 at gmail.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christine Szostak via Electronics-talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2014 7:44 AM
Subject: [Electronics-talk] Trying to Understand Data Plans


> Hi All,
>  Since we are on the topic of data plans and how they can be used, as a 
> current non-smart phone user, who is finally confident enough with the 
> iPod that I am considering an iPhone for my next phone, I have been trying 
> to understand exactly what "data" is. Thus, I was wondering if anyone can 
> help explain the following. Sorry for what will likely sound like very 
> silly and obvious questions:
>
> 1)  What exactly is data?  Data is things like e-mail, streaming, internet 
> browsing, things like that.
>
> 2(  If your data plan has say 2 gigs of data, what exactly does that mean. 
> In other words, how much of your data is used up each minute or if easier 
> to explain, each hour...?  Data is charged for for a one month period, if 
> you have two GB of data, this lasts you for an entire monthly cycle.  If 
> you go over the two GB, you get charged a pretty high fee for another 500 
> Mb or 1 GB of aditional data usage.
>
> 3)  Does your data continue to be used if you come in contact with a wifi 
> connection that you are permitted to use (e.g., your own home's wifi or 
> say an internet cafe where you can connect)? If not, does it automatically 
> stop using up data when it comes in contact with a wifi hotspot or do you 
> have to turn the data off?  If you come in contact with a WIFI network, 
> your data automatically is no longer used, since you are no longer using 
> your cellular network, but have connected to WIFI.
>
> 4)  Are there limitations to what you can access with data (e.g., 
> streaming, downloading, YouTube, basic internet searching...)? No, you can 
> do anything you could do with a DSL or cable connection.
>
> 5)  Somewhat related to 4 are there certain things that take up more or 
> less data (e.g., GPS, YouTube, streaming, basic internet searches...)? 
> Yes, anything that is video takes more bandwidth than basic internet 
> searching. just audio streaming uses more than internet searching, but 
> less than video.  For example, if I'm using my 2 GB of data, I can listen 
> to all the baseball games in that month, and not go over.
>
>  Any other information that you can give me would also be really 
> appreciated:)!
> Hope you all have a wonderful and relaxing weekend!
> Chris
> Christine M. Szostak, PhD
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Psychology
> Shorter University
> Rome, Georgia
> szostak.1 at osu.edu
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