So apparently AT&T has decided that I am close to getting charged $10 for another gig of bandwidth, having used 2.9 gig so far this month. I've already been charged $10 for going over 2 gig so that would make my monthly usage $45. I talked to a rep and he said that even though my billing cycle ends on the 3rd they won't roll over the next gig to be purchased to the next month. So I have turned off the data network on my phone to avoid going over 100MB usage and their price gouging. I have to keep it off until the 3rd to save $10. Let's see if I don't go into some kind of cold turkey convulsions. I will miss all of the data features. There is something about watching streaming movies on your phone, listening to streaming radio stations and watching all of the cameras gaurding my house.

So I was thinking about the whole hotspot thing to make up for it. Sprint and Verizon offer them but there are data limits on that and it is $60 a month. Then I found Clear 4G, which Best Buy sells. They give you a personal wifi hotspot for $43 a month for unlimited data. But because you have to have a data plan with the iPhone you have to get the minimum iPhone plan at $15 for 200MB. That would mean that you end up paying $58 for truly unlimited data. Now we have unlimited text messages and that doesn't count towards the data plan. I wonder if I could create an app that routes all internet traffic on the text message spectrum. Eh, sounds complicated.

But I was thinking, say you pay for home internet access at like $30-60 a month plus your phone data plan. If you had a wifi hotspot only you could get rid of your home internet service and it would be cost effective with more versatility. However, since I have servers at home that wouldn't work, but for the everyday user it would work. The real issue is why don't they have wifi at work? That would solve so many problems. Oh well, time to check in to Internet Addicts Anonymous. I wonder if they have a website?