HT201299: About cellular data settings and usage on your iPhone and iPad

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Raspicui
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Q: I have a data plan, still I'm not able to rent a film with it, it tells me that I got to do it over a wifi connection, what is the purpose to have data plan it you can't use it?

I already enabled data plan to be used with iTunes, but it still tells me that it can only be used on a wifi connection

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Posted on Oct 26, 2012 4:34 PM

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Q: I have a data plan, still I'm not able to rent a film with it, it tells me that I got to do it over a wifi connection, what is the ... more

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  • by Skydiver119,

    Skydiver119 Skydiver119 Oct 26, 2012 5:02 PM in response to Raspicui
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    Oct 26, 2012 5:02 PM in response to Raspicui

    Data plans usually have a single file cap on size. Sometimes it's 20 meg, other times 50.

     

    Dunno if it's a 'large bill shock preventer' or a simple 'don't hog all the bandwidth' mechanism.

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Oct 26, 2012 7:20 PM in response to Raspicui
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    Oct 26, 2012 7:20 PM in response to Raspicui

    All iOS devices have a limit on the size of files they can download over cellular: 50 megs. Anything larger must be done over WiFi. This does not prevent you from using your cellar service for many other things (email, streaming music, downloading smaller files, web browsing) so, it's hardly useless.