I have a serious question and need your help.
What is 'Data' in the sense intended by Tello's "Subscription Plan".
My "Plan" entitles me to unlimited calling, unlimited text, and 3G Data per month. But what Constitutes 'data'? Is it something that happens on the Wi-Fi side? Is data transferred during unlimited calls?
I don't know enough about it to ask the question well.
@carl-blare I can answer that. You can have so much data on regular internet on a computer also if you don't have unlinmited. Anytime you are on the internet you are using data. Videos use more than text. If you download something the amount of MB it takes is data.
When you are watching a video on youtube you are using data. If a song track takes up 5 MB that is data. You don't have unlimited with the phone you have 3 GB. If you use that up depending on what you are doing and how long you are on before the month is up you get charged a lot extra for going over the data limit. It means you are limited on how much you can be on the internet with the phone, not your home computer as that is separate.
Think of it like this. Your computer has so much storage like 100GB. Everytime you add something to the computer it takes up so much space and you only have up to 100GB.
Same with 3 GB data per month internet only when you are on it posting on part 15.org you are using up data.
You data limit only applies for the internet not calls and text as that is unlimited.
You have helped me understand what data is in this situation. But there is another thing that makes no sense to me.
I own the phone. I pay an ISP for having internet in my home. The Wi-Fi router is my personal property. What business is it of Tello to have any claim to my wi-fi/internet activity?
@carl-blare The phone is yours but the plan for it to work is the providers. Same as your home computer. You own the computer and box or router but not the internet which is owned by the provider. Maybe you can work out a deal with the phone and home computer with the one company in a pkg deal but as long as you have a separate ISP with the phone and it's not unlimited which gives you so much internet time/data they can keep track at their end to know your usage. They don't know what you are doing there just the data use.
And remember, time on uses up data. Even if you go to, say, part 15.org, and just let it sit at the home page and do nothing you are still using time up which is using data!
Used to be you got so much time per month like 50 hours or something and it didn't matter what you did but then they went to data. If you have unlimited then they don't keep track of your use as they don't need to.
They still would know how much time you spent on the internet and how much data used as the provider has you on their system and if you called and asked they could tell you. You are getting the stream from them.
Mark you have provided for me a college level education in this whole modern internet telephone "web" in which we are tangled like a fish in a net or a fly in a spider web. The phones may be smart, but the users might not be very smart. There are so many entities in on the deal and somehow it is us who pays the bills. Why can't we charge someone for providing part 15 radio?