Choosing an iPad data plan has become a very common and an important thing these days. With the increase in the usage of iPad, service providers have come up with a number of iPad data plans. The question of which iPad Data Plan you should buy depends on the usage of the customer. It depends on how the customer will be using the device on a 3G network, of course. Specifically, AT&T offers a $14.99 monthly iPad data plan that allows for 250 MB of data consumed and a $29.99 monthly plan that allows for unlimited Internet consumption.
For a clear idea of what the cheaper iPad data plan offers, here’s what 250 MB translates to – About 35 minutes of YouTube video at standard-definition or about 8-10 minutes of YouTube or iTunes video at 720p hi-definition or about 70 songs from iTunes or a few thousand Web pages and typical email usage or more than 4,000 Facebook photos. This is one iPad data plan.
The following details give us a clearer idea about the above iPad data plan. Ifyou are surethat a month’s worth of 3G access looks like this, then you should be fine with the 250 MB plan – Browsing a few dozen Web pages a day and typical email usage (without downloading big attachments),looking at a few dozen Facebook photos a day andwatching a few minutes of YouTube videos a week, downloading a few songs and podcasts from iTunes per month. Downloading a few small iPhone or iPad applications per month or light application usage can alsobe included in this iPad data plan.
Few customers may need a different iPad data plan to make a lot of downloads and use the internet for long hours. If the customer is using more bandwidth than the iPad data plan that was mentioned earlier, over 3G, we may consider the $29.99 plan. The service provider allows you to cancel anytime, change plans on a monthly basis or turn service off and on because there is no contract. You need to remember that using the iPad in a Wi-Fi zone doesn’t count toward this limit. So if you are going to use the iPad primarily at homeor at the officeor any place where there isWi-Fi, youwill not need to worry about hitting the 250 MB cap. AT&T is also including free access to its Wi-Fi networks in its iPad data plans which include Starbucks locations.
