HT5085 doesnt listening to music from the cloud eat up a lot of your data usage? like traveling on 3g

When listening to music from the cloud, doesn't that eat up a lot of data usage since its constantly streaming or downloading music over the 3g/4g nework? I get it if your at home and on wi-fi, but if you're at the gym, uot in the car, etc.........

Yes it does.  An hour of music streaming may use around 120 MB.  If you do that every day it could easily go past your cap. 
However, streaming audio is not as bad as streaming video.

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