The phrase "a megabyte of data" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the amount of digital information, particularly in contexts related to computing, data storage, or data transfer.
Example: "The file size is approximately a megabyte of data, which should download quickly on a high-speed internet connection."
Alternatives: "one megabyte of information" or "a megabyte's worth of data".
A megabyte of data costs $15 to $20.
A minute of music or about 80 Web page downloads contain about a megabyte of data.
The biggest charges hit internet usage: a megabyte of data downloaded abroad will set you back €0.20, around 16p.
(9,600 bits per second, since you ask. Downloading a megabyte of data took about 25 minutes. Instead of data, all the telcos made their money from voice calls.
(That's based on the transmission costs for a megabyte of data running just over 2 cents).
You'd need about 870 of these 1000′ rolls to save a megabyte of data.
In other words, all of its components, both hardware and software, are readily commercially available.To put it through its paces, it was given the task of sorting the items in a database a routine computing operation, except that the database in question contained a terabyte (a million megabytes) of data.
The data plan is a ridiculously expensive 20 euros per megabyte of data.
In Seattle, AT&T Wireless charges a minimum of $50 a month for 400 voice minutes and one megabyte of data.
In order for malware writers to workaround Metapacket's detection system Krakowski reckons they would have to create complex programs — "of at least a few megabytes of data", that run "a whole chunk of code that mimics a browser" — which would in turn be at risk of flagging up the presence of something malicious on the network by merit of their complexity.
In previous releases of Maps, users could save chunks of the map for later use (like when you're traveling abroad on a roaming plan and downloading a few megabytes of data would cost you somewhere between seven and eight billion dollars).
