Phil's Financial Tip of the Day:
Five Ways to Manage Data Use on Your New iPad
Users of the new iPad are learning that its new high-speed wireless connection can be blazing fast, but painfully expensive. Andrew Dowell joins digits with five ways to consumers can cut those costs
Users of the new iPad are learning that its new high-speed wireless connection can be blazing fast, but painfully expensive. That's the downside of making it easier to watch TV on the go.
Cutting through the tangle of their plans, AT&T Inc. T -0.41% and Verizon Wireless generally will bill you about $10 for every gigabyte of data you use.
Verizon estimates that's enough to watch about an hour and a half of standard-definition video on your new iPad— or about the cost of sitting down at a movie.
If you want to take advantage of your new iPad's super-sharp screen and stream high-definition video, your bill will get even steeper: Be prepared to consume two gigabytes an hour, Verizon says.
There are ways to use your iPad to watch movies without shelling out an arm and a leg. The rub is most involve limiting the use of the LTE wireless broadband connection that is one of the main selling points of the new device.
Here's what to do:
• Use Wi-Fi whenever possible-at home, at work, in hotels and in coffee shops. Wi-Fi, which runs through landline Internet networks rather than the mobile network, doesn't count against your Verizon or AT&T data cap.
To read the rest of the article from The Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303812904577294022684911852.html?mod=ITP_marketplace_0
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