Does iTunes match count against my data plan?

I subscribed to iTunes match last week but I haven't been able to locate any information on whether or not it counts towards my data plan when I am listening to music on a non-WiFi connection. Presumably, if I am not connected to WiFi and I want to play a few songs, it's going to have to get to my phone somehow over the network and it wouldn't take long to eat up my allotted 2 GB month if these songs do count towards the data plan.
I called Apple support and asked this same question and was told that it did not count towards the data. But, the girl seemed a little confused by my question, and even though she was very nice and helpful, I want to make absolutely sure that I have the correct information.
I did check my usage statistics, and it looks like it reset when I got the iOS 5 update two days ago, but my usage is already 689 mb received. I remember a couple months ago I checked and I hadn't even used 2 GB since last December when I got the phone, so to use almost half of what i had used in almost a year in 2 days seems like something might be askew.

Yes, the download of music files will go against your cellular data plan.  Also, I suggest that you initially activate iTunes Match on your devices while on a WiFi connection.  There's a lot of initial setup traffic that takes place and it will be cheaper and far less frustrating to do it initially on WiFi.

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