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A question about Google Music and mobile data usage

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sessman

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after the announcement of google music this afternoon i've been uploading my music to my google music account. I am currently on Sprints network and enjoying unlimited data, however I plan to switch to Verizon and hop on their 4gb for the price of 2gb plan. Once all my music is uploaded to my google music account I can access it on their cloud based service on my cell phone anytime (i know you already know this) but im wondering when I access and stream my music from my google music account am I using my data plan? I am assuming the answer is yes, but thought I should make sure. Any way to get around this other then using WiFi or transferring the songs directly onto my phone?
 
Yeah that would be data.. I can't imagine it could be anything else. Even Google voice is really using data... someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Funny because I am also on sprint and planning on switching to verizon but the only thing holding me back is the data cap.
 
jancat said:
Even Google voice is really using data... someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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Google Voice (by itself) does not use data for voice calls. It uses your minutes. The Google Voice app does use data for text messages though.
 
hmmm....really a cool feature of google music and any other cloud based media app, i wonder how much data it would really consume, when deciding to switch to verizon from sprint i looked at my previous 5 monthly statements and realized i was only using on average .5 gbs of data a month, so 2gbs seemed plenty to me, then verizon announced twice the data for the same price so it was a no brainer, im wondering how many hours of streaming approx. be 1gb of data out of curiosity....
 
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