{"id":299,"date":"2009-01-12T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/01\/no-more-iphone-transmissions-from-southwest-asia.html"},"modified":"2009-01-12T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T08:04:00","slug":"no-more-iphone-transmissions-from-southwest-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/01\/no-more-iphone-transmissions-from-southwest-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"No more iPhone transmissions from Southwest Asia!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I used my iPhone a few times since I\u2019ve been here.  I used it quite a bit en route, uploading pictures and chatting on Facebook from Italy.  My phone will officially stay in \u201cairplane mode\u201d for the rest of my time here!  <\/o:p><\/div>\n
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So it\u2019s essentially an iPod touch, still quite useful to me.  I can still access my tunes, my one movie (Star Wars the Clone Wars), and my notes, contact lists and games.   <\/o:p><\/div>\n
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I just checked my AT&T bill and did the math:  I\u2019ve done 5.07MB (5070KB) of data transmission via the iPhone on this trip, at $0.0195 per KB = $98.87!!!!<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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I knew this was coming\u2026I received a text message in Germany, Italy and my location here, each from the respective cell phone companies (Vodaphone, Voda-It, the one here) telling me the data transmission charges.  My phone can hop on wireless here when it can find it, but as soon as the wireless drops, the cell phone network picks up the slack and suddenly the charges accrue.<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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Can\u2019t wait for that first paycheck from this trip to cover those charges!<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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-Patricia<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I used my iPhone a few times since I\u2019ve been here.  I used it quite a bit en route, uploading pictures and chatting on Facebook from Italy.  My phone will officially stay in \u201cairplane mode\u201d for the rest of my time here!  So it\u2019s essentially an iPod touch, still quite useful to me.  I can … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[13,12,63,66],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-air-force-reserves","tag-computer","tag-deployment","tag-iphone"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t