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All plans are billed monthly, but some charge by the minute, some charge by the volume of data transferred, and some offer unlimited time and volume for a flat fee.
On a typical flight about 100 text messages were sent or received and ten megabytes of data transferred by a dozen BlackBerry users.
On the whole, the decision is likely to slow but not noticeably stem the amount of data transferred to the US and thus the amount of data readily available for US intelligence agencies to inspect under their lax surveillance laws, which afford non-US persons next to no privacy rights whatsoever.
A study published Thursday by the security firm Palo Alto Networks indicated that the use of Megaupload on corporate networks was greater than the combined use of Box.net, Dropbox and YouSendIt, as measured by the amount of data transferred.
Charges for today's "persistent" digital connections, such as a cable modem, DSL (digital subscriber line) or ISDN (integrated services digital network), are typically either flat monthly fees or by volume of data transferred.
They also charge $0.20/GB of data transferred.
By comparison, Amazon charges $0.15/GB/month for storage, and $0.10/GB of data transferred in and $0.13-$0.13-$0.18/GBtransferredred out.
Pricing is $0.18/GB/month for storage and $0.18/GB of data transferred.
