SHOULD U GET A IPAD IF I HAVE AN IPHONE

There is no "fee" for WiFi on the iPhone or the iPad. Your data plan that you are paying for on your iPhone is your cellular data plan. If you want to use cellular (not WiFi) data on an iPad it will also cost you money.

You don't pay for WiFi on the iPhone. Yes, you need a data package but that is not WiFi. Unless you have access to a WiFi hotspot your iPad will have no internet like your iPhone will when you're in AT&Ts service area.

WiFi is no more 'free' on the iPad than it is on the iPhone. What made you think iPad WiFi was free?

Wherever you connect to WiFi if there's a charge, you'll pay, and if not you won't. It doesn't matter whether its an iPhone or iPad.

Many iPhone users get 'free' WiFi included in what they pay monthly for their iPhone contract.

You are completely wrong. There is no charge when you connect your iPad or iPhone to WiFi ! Don't spread misinformation like that.

Now if you are connecting to your own WiFi network sure, you're paying for internet through your ISP but you can go to thousands of places that offer WiFi for free and you do not pay a single cent to connect to those networks.

You are both right, given a specific context. There is tremendous variability in Wifi availability between and within large metropolitan areas, let alone between regions or countries (and here, continents!).

I happen to have many locations where free Wifi is available nearby in downtown Montreal, however, it is not the case at the airport, nor in every shopping mall.

In Ottawa, two hours away, free Wifi is hard to find! I travel a lot between Canada, the USA, and Australia for work, and it's certainly not free everywhere... In Sydney, I could only find free Wifi at the (one) Apple Store, and at various McDonald's ⚠ fast food joints.

Peace out.

Actually, there are situations where you have to pay for wifi if you want access. We were at a mall in Tampa a couple weeks ago and there was a charge to use mall wifi.

WiFi is free to use on both the iPhone and iPad. If you choose to connect your iPhone or iPad to a wifi service that charges that is your choice and you will incur a per use charge. Wifi is not like 3G where you pay a "fee" for the privilege of having it available. Wifi is always available on both the iPhone and iPad, the charge is levied by who ever provides the wifi connection on a per use basis, or, you could subscribe to a wifi service at a particular location then use that service whenever you are within range of that wifi service.

If you have Wifi at home, you can connect either, or both, your iPhone and iPad to your wifi router. There is no cost to do so.

You are completely wrong.

No, I'm not completely wrong. It depends where you connect. Which, if you had bothered to actually read what I posted, I said "WiFi is no more 'free' on the iPad than it is on the iPhone."

If you are in a place that offers free WiFi it will be free no matter what device you access it on.

If you are in a place that charges for WiFi it will be *paid for* no matter what device you access it on.

There is no charge when you connect your iPad or iPhone to WiFi ! Don't spread misinformation like that.

You are the one spreading misinformation. You don't even live in the UK so you are in no position to comment on the free/paid status of WiFi in the UK. WiFi is NOT free everywhere in the UK. Stop spreading misinformation because you clearly don't know what you are talking about.

To correct your misinformation I will give you some examples:

a) McDonalds offer free WiFi. It is free to both iPad and iPhone users.

b) Starbucks offer paid for WiFi. It is charged to both iPad and iPhone users.

c) Companies like "The Cloud" and "BTOpenzone" offer paid for WiFi subscription plans that cover the whole country. If you pay for one of these plans, you can access the internet at any location within the price that you pay.

Now, stick to answering question you know something about.

WiFi is free to use on both the iPhone and iPad.

So, that's settled - you are unequivocally stating that "WiFi is free to use". Great!

If you ... connect ... to a wifi service that charges ... you will incur a per use charge.

Huh? So now you are charged? You said it was free in the previous sentence!

Talk about trying to confusing the original poster.

Whether WiFi is free or not is entirely dependent on who is providing the WiFi service you are accessing. There is no single answer that fits all situations.

This whole "free" vs. "paid" argument seems ludicrous to me. Regardless of how the OP will be connecting to the internet, there are many advantages of using the iPad.

Personally, I find the iPad has killed the iPhone. I rarely use apps on the iPhone at all any more. Everything is much more pleasurable, easy and fun to use on the iPad. The iPhone is great for on-the-go access because it is so small, but I find that sometimes I forego use of some apps until I have the iPad handy.

For me, the iPhone is a secondary device to the iPad which does everything better.

You are paying for a data service which includes access to Wifi from the 3G provider who is suppling your data plan. You are only paying for access to the WiFi hotspots that belong to your service provider.

You can access WiFi for free from lots of other places, e.g. at home if you have a WiFi network, McDonalds, etc, etc. Your payment has NOTHING to do with accessing these WiFi networks.

Can you not comprehend the concept that you do not pay for wifi until you subscribe to a wifi service or connect to a pay as you go service? Many airports provide wifi by a third party, boingo comes to mind, or T-Mobile. You can pay a subscription fee to boingo or T-Mobile then whenever you connect to their wifi service you get access to the Internet. Or, you can connect to Boingo or T-Mobile without a subscription and you'll pay each time you connect. And to answer your question about how do you pay, you pay by credit card. They won't let you access until you insert your credit card information.

But wifi is free unless you choose to connect to a pay wifi service as above.

And to get back to the OP's comment, it does not matter whether you connect using an iPhone or an iPad. If you are paying for 3G service, or not, you can still connect freely to wifi if your device supports wifi.

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Can you not comprehend the concept that you do not pay for wifi until you subscribe to a wifi service or connect to a pay as you go service?

Well, dur! If you are not subscribed to a wifi service or connected to a pay as you go service, you're clearly not using a paid for service, so obviously you wouldn't be paying. Talk about stating the obvious.

And to answer your question about how do you pay, you pay by credit card.

What question? I never asked that.

But wifi is free unless you choose to connect to a pay wifi service as above.

Jeez... can you not read? In my post above yours I wrote: +"Whether WiFi is free or not is entirely dependent on who is providing the WiFi service you are accessing."+

In many locations there is no choice of free WiFi, so if you want to connect to the internet, you have to pay.

I know how Wifi services in airports, hotels, shopping malls, libraries, public spaces, pubs and restaurants work. I've used them all.

As I said in the very beginning: If there's a charge, you pay, and if not you don't.

Who cares where anyone lives ? You were wrong, period. Lmao Don't get so uptight over it.

Just to clear things up. WiFi is FREE on both the iPad and iPhone. You do not have to pay extra like you do with a 3G data plan (If you have the 3G iPad) on your iPhone. That does not mean you can use WiFi everywhere of course. First, WiFi isn't available everywhere and secondly not everyone has an open network for you to use.

Coffee shops are IMO the most common place to access WiFi for free.