Data cost of iMessage

[jca24]

Just a couple of questions about iMessage.

When on wifi, it's going through wifi and not using data?

When not on wifi, it is using data?

Say you text 500 texts a month on iMessage, will that be much data used?

Just curious
Thanks

 

[treyjustice]

wifi will not use your carriers data..

and imessage uses basically no data it costs like .0001 cents to send that amount of data

 

[jca24]

wifi will not use your carriers data..

and imessage uses basically no data it costs like .0001 cents to send that amount of data

thanks fellow Texan!

 

[Schtibbie]

Say you text 500 texts a month on iMessage, will that be much data used?

And I'd like to tack onto that a question we should all be asking: When your iMessage goes across the AT&T network, is AT&T correctly adding *just* that many bytes to your "used" amount for that month? Or is AT&T doing a substantial round-up that will result in nearly double what you'd expect one iMessage to cost you?

This could actually matter for folks with unlimited text but not unlimited data, and/or folks who at the end of the month are REALLY close to going over their little 200meg limit..

 

[gloss]

thanks fellow Texan!

You're looking at under 100k of data for 500 messages.

 

[Jay42]

That's good to know, although might not be true if you're sending MMS.

Doesn't do me any good though, since AT&T only offers one family texting plan (unlimited). I guess the read receipts are nice though. My friends appreciate being able to use their iPads to text, but I don't have one.

 

[Gemütlichkeit]

I'm also curious of this information. When it comes to MMS pictures/videos over 3G, I'm sure that data adds up.

However sending pictures/movies over ATT texting doesn't count towards data.