AT&T data question

[quackinup]

I looked thru the FAQ section and didn't see this, and I'm terrible at searching forums, so I apologize if this has been covered.

I am about out of data and still have about 10 days left in my month. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, I would just turn off 3G and only use it when absolute necessary. However on Monday I will be out of town for 3 days and will have limited wifi access so I will need to use my 3G quite a bit. My question is, if I add data now, will I have to use it all before the end of my current month, or will I start a new month cycle and have a month to use the added data?

And as long as I'm here, I just downloaded Tapatalk, but am having trouble finding this forum in the list. Is it named differently there?

 

[Kilgore]

If you buy more data, it will reset your date and you'll have 30 more days from the time of purchase.

 

[quackinup]

Cool, that's what I thought it would probably do.

 

[quackinup]

I just had a thought. Since I'm "adding" data, I would think it would keep the data I have now and add some to it. So if I have 23mb left and add 250mb I would now have 273mb. If I did this on the last day of each month I would effectively keep all of my "rollover data" and get to use it all.

 

[twerppoet]

No. The new plan begins immediately. There is no rollover data.

 

[quackinup]

So absolutely no point to the popups and emails that say you only have X% left, until it reaches 0.

 

[twerppoet]

Except to warn you that your are about to run out of data for the month. Some people might want to know that before it cuts you off without notice.

 

[quackinup]

Yeah, I guess if you knew that you were going to be in the middle of something critical when it ran out you could renew early.