iTunes - Radio

I just noticed that I can now listen to the radio on iTunes. But would listening to it eat up my data usage amount?

I love the radio idea

It is streamed, if that is what you mean. So it WILL eat up your ISP limit.

Thanks for your reply. I will have to watch my data usage then

Try and find out if any radio stations are mirrored locally by your ISP.
If they are AND you have a separate allowance for local then you will be ok.

For example; I have 40 gig a month Upload AND 40 Gig a month Download AND 40 gig Local.
I use the radio stations that are mirrored locally by my ISP and it comes off my Local usage and not my download usage......

I guess that's a common things outside the states? Having a data limit on internet?

I'm pretty sure american ISP's have data limits too, they are in the fine print. I'm not sure how strictly enforced they are though...

I don't think my ISP Xtra has Local. How do I find this out apart from contacting them?

MacFanBoy said:

Try and find out if any radio stations are mirrored locally by your ISP.
If they are AND you have a separate allowance for local then you will be ok.

For example; I have 40 gig a month Upload AND 40 Gig a month Download AND 40 gig Local.
I use the radio stations that are mirrored locally by my ISP and it comes off my Local usage and not my download usage......

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Here in New Zealand our plans have a Monthly Data cap and mine is 6GB and if I go over this before the month is up my speed goes down to dial-up but I rarely get to 5GB per month

Downstream: The day to day speed of your broadband will vary depending on a number of factors. Also the Downstream speed is 256 Kbps

Upstream: The maximum upstream speed for this plan is capped at 128 kbps

AlyciaAnimation says: I guess that's a common things outside the states? Having a data limit on internet?

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eliehass said:

I'm pretty sure american ISP's have data limits too, they are in the fine print. I'm not sure how strictly enforced they are though...

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If they are not unlimited, then the limit is so high that the average user could never possibly hit it even if you continuously downloaded 24/7. We'd have to be running a network of servers out of the home to have a problem, but we probably wouldn't have the bandwidth to do so anyway.

I believe the browser on my mobile phone has a 5gb per month limit though.

I looked it up. And if I understood it correctly, at least for the ISP I have, it's an unlimited data limit, but it's capped at a certain speed. So you pay for different download/upload speeds but have no limit to how much you can download/upload.

My phone does have a limit though.