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Old 29-08-2012, 00:36
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Just been looking at my 3 account online as my new month starts today and its saying I have 17,107mb left but what is that in GB?
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Old 29-08-2012, 00:38
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It depends whether you're counting decimal or binary but, either way, it's ~17GB.
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Old 29-08-2012, 01:06
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Three measure 1 GB as 1024 MB, so 17,107 MB is 16.7 GB.
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Old 29-08-2012, 02:21
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Many thanks guys.

Do you know if it gets rolled over to the next month if you don't use it all the month before?
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Old 29-08-2012, 09:42
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Three measure 1 GB as 1024 MB, so 17,107 MB is 16.7 GB.
That's the norm, not just 3. Follow this pattern up to 1024.

2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64..........
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Old 29-08-2012, 11:41
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No, it does not get rolled over unfortunately. I miss the days of roll-over minutes.
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Old 29-08-2012, 23:43
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That's the norm, not just 3. Follow this pattern up to 1024.

2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64..........
Well, it depends on how pedantic you want to be.

No standards institutes actually regard base 2 notation as being correct for KB / MB / GB measurements, so in the strictest sense 1 GB is 1 billion bytes.

KiB, MiB and GiB are the correct notations for the base 2 measurements.
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Old 30-08-2012, 00:20
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surely its 0.0167061GB
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Old 30-08-2012, 00:33
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surely its 0.0167061GB
You're confusing your punctuation.
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Old 30-08-2012, 08:10
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Many thanks guys.

Do you know if it gets rolled over to the next month if you don't use it all the month before?
Are you not on all you can eat data? Surely that wouldn't make a difference?
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Old 30-08-2012, 08:32
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Just been looking at my 3 account online as my new month starts today and its saying I have 17,107mb left but what is that in GB?
What the heck does a milli-bit mean?
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Old 30-08-2012, 08:50
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Well, it depends on how pedantic you want to be.

No standards institutes actually regard base 2 notation as being correct for KB / MB / GB measurements, so in the strictest sense 1 GB is 1 billion bytes.

KiB, MiB and GiB are the correct notations for the base 2 measurements.
Whilst Base 2 notation might not be officially recognised by standards institutes for those measurements, it has become the de facto standard amongst telecoms companies because data usage is measures in terms of transmitted bits per second.
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Old 30-08-2012, 08:57
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What the heck does a milli-bit mean?
That it is a very, very, very slow connection?
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Old 30-08-2012, 08:58
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I'lll say. It took me all night to make it.
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Old 30-08-2012, 09:20
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Many thanks guys.

Do you know if it gets rolled over to the next month if you don't use it all the month before?
if you didn't need it this month why would you need it next month?
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