Set up your Data Plan

Step 2: Set up your Data Plan

Now, unfortunately the World Traveler plan DOES NOT cover data usage, so I had a choice, hope that I could find unprotected WIFI networks and pay the $.0195/KB (or, $19.50/MB) data charge when I couldn’t, or sign up for one of AT&T’s Data Global packages. The data add-ons come in four options:

20MB ($24.99)
50MB ($59.99)
100MB ($119.99)
200MB ($199.99)

I looked at my bills from the past few months, and since I generally use about 120MB a month, I figured I’d be fine with the 50MB package. After all, I was only planing on being gone 2 weeks and restricting my data usage to the map application, some light email, and Google Translate. AT&T prorates these data plans, so if you don’t use every last megabyte, they’ll credit you back what you didn’t use. Since I opted for the 50MB plan, that I meant I was paying about $1.20/MB.