iPad 3: Data Fees Soar Due To Video Streaming

Brandon Wells got the new iPad last Friday, started wirelessly streaming March Madness games the next day and by Saturday night was out of gas.

Two hours of college basketball—which he viewed mounted to his car dashboard and live at tournament games—had burned through his monthly wireless data allotment of two gigabytes.

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Comments

[Dave Wilson]

08:46 AM on 03/23/2012

Nope, sorry. Not gonna go to read an article by one of Rupert Murdoch's minions. WSJ has lost all credibility after it was engulfed and devoured by the right-wing Füehrer.

[robinhood1]

11:00 AM on 03/22/2012

The picture on the ipad looks like it comes from "Downton Abbey". Instead of spending a small fortune to watch it on your ipad, just buy the DVD for $20 at Amazon and watch it at home on your home computer. Some people have more money than brains.

[justmeblue5ft3]

06:41 PM on 04/02/2012

Or just use Wifi and not the 3 or 4 G connection! Is there a way to have the new iPad use the 3G connectivity rather than the LTE or 4G? I only have the Wifi model of the new iPad I opoted for the 64gb rather than the cellular model. Thanks.

[feartheswans]

12:07 AM on 04/03/2012

Its not the speed that effects how much data you use, its what you do with the Data. (its still 500MBs of data no matter how fast you beam it in.) To answer your question, yes you can shut off the LTE and stick with just 3G data speeds, just like you can turn off boath and use only the Wi-fi. This can helps save battery life.

[feartheswans]

12:05 AM on 04/03/2012

Downton Abey is roughly the same $19.99 in HD or $14.99 in regular (DVD) resolution on iTunes. So You can pay the same price for HIgh resolution, DL it to your Comouter through iTunes, Synch that toy our iPad at no additional charge and BAM Watch it on your comp or your iPad (or iPhone or iPod) and incure NO DATA CHARGES.

[justmeblue5ft3]

01:32 AM on 04/03/2012

Thanks so much!