So.. I finally received my phone bill which reflects all of these vlog posts from my phone.<\/p>\n
Here is the breakdown from my bill:
\nADDL DATA $0.03\/KB 986 KB(S) 29.58\u00ac\u2020
\nMULTIMEDIA SNT 5 EVT(S) 2.00\u00ac\u2020
\n>100KB MLTIMEDIA SNT 12 EVT(S) 9.60\u00ac\u2020<\/p>\n
So, deciphering this, I got charged almost $30.00 for data usage, $2 for 5 MMS messages that were less than 100KB and almost $10 for MMS messages that were greater than 100KB. Setting aside the data usage for now (because I think that is from some streaming tests that I was doing), the MMS messages are either $.40 or $.80 per message. Considering that I am using this for video blogging, almost all of these messages are going to be greater than 100KB (my phone\/ATTWireless has a 300KB sending limit) and therefore will cost $.80 each.<\/p>\n
Now for the rant: I attempted to change my wireless plan with ATTWireless online. Unfortunately, in order to change my plan, I have to “migrate” to Cingular who recently been bought ATTWireless. This in itself isn’t so bad but low and behold, I would have to get a new phone, pay an activation fee for the privilege and signup for an another year of service. Yeah!!!!!!!! I love wireless providers (not).<\/p>\n
Ok, so after calling the wonderful 611 number they provide, I talked to someone who had no idea what MMS is. In any case, I found that I could change the optional services on my account and for $2 more than what I am paying for text messages already I could add 20 “picture messages” to the service. So I went for it..<\/p>\n
Now, I still have some concerns:
\nThe main one is: Will I still get charged more for MMS messages that are greater than 100KB?<\/p>\n
In any case, as Jay brought up to me, first, I need a WiFi phone with Skype and second, micropayments suck since I need to decide whether or not I actually want to pay for posting a video to my blog each and every time I shoot one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So.. I finally received my phone bill which reflects all of these vlog posts from my phone. Here is the breakdown from my bill: ADDL DATA $0.03\/KB 986 KB(S) 29.58\u00ac\u2020 MULTIMEDIA SNT 5 EVT(S) 2.00\u00ac\u2020 >100KB MLTIMEDIA SNT 12 EVT(S) 9.60\u00ac\u2020 So, deciphering this, I got charged almost $30.00 for data usage, $2 for 5 … Continue reading My Phone Bill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-streaming-and-multi-media","category-vlog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}