Blogger Tests Limits of iPad's Unlimited Plan

Sarah Jacobsson

May 5, 2010 6:30 pm

A lot of cell phone carriers and Internet providers offer "unlimited" data plans--but a lot of these plans have a cap on the amount of data that users can actually move. In 2008, Comcast notoriously advertised an unlimited plan but imposed a 250GB monthly cap for its residential customers.
So when the 3G-enabled iPad came out with its two different AT&T data plans--a $15/month 250MB plan and a $30/month unlimited plan--blogger Zach Epstein wondered if the unlimited plan really was, well, unlimited.
Know Your Cell's Epstein decided to put the iPad 3G's data plan through a "torture-test." Using an app called Download Lite, Epstein downloaded test files and managed to move an astonishing 31GB of data in two days over AT&T's 3G network. (To put that into perspective, the average iPhone user uses less than one gigabyte of data in a four months).

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