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I'm VERY happy I kept my Unlimited data plan with ATT. I routinely exceed 20GB of data a month and, that's with virtually no video streaming. The $5/month I would have saved would have been easily offset by a month or three of data overages.
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"I'm curious as to how that is even possible"
I"m not exactly sure myself how I use that much data. I stream Pandora occasionally (while walking, I usually listen to an audiobook). I do have over 800 Apps on my iPhone5s (over 5300 Apps in iTMS account on my 17" MBP) and, updating those Apps will eat up some data (especially GPS App databases). From other posts, it seems that iPhones routinely "call home", even when cellular data is supposed to be off and, that activity uses some data. Again, since I'm grandfathered in with Unlimited Data, I'm not paranoid or frugal with my use of data. This unlimited data is the reason I still use ATT. If ATT ends my Unlimited Data, I'd end ATT as my provider.
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At home, the only internet I have is my iPhone5s & Galaxy Note3, both with Unlimited Data. I believe it was back in the summer of 2005 that I dropped ALL ties with Cablevision and the terrible service they delivered (FIOS not available in my area). My local public library offers excellent free WiFi (and all the DVDs I want to watch) and, when I need to do really large downloads, I head there. I even get a good WiFi connectivity sitting out in the library parking lot! Should either ATT (iPhone5s) or Sprint (Note3) cancel my Unlimited Data, I would drop them. I guess it's easy to use large amounts of data this way.