I rarely use over 2GB of data per month. Usually most of my data traffic happens over wifi. Curious.
If you want to know why I’m asking:
My phone provider just decided to upgrade my subscription plan some ridiculous amount. I was on a cheap prepaid 18GB every 28 days plan, with data rollover. (I got nearly 900 GB of rollover data just sitting there, accumulated over the years).
Now they increased both their price and data cap about +60%. For me this is absolutely unnecessary. I was already paying for more than what I used.
Then I tried to switch providers, and realized this is the new baseline in the country, at least for monthly prepaid. Eventually I found a few providers that offer something more affordable, but it’s only long expiry plans with a lot less data. Works for me though, not complaining.
I’m just surprised with the sheer amounts in most monthly plans, am I some kind of low usage freak?
I use very little, so I picked a plan with a pay-as-you-use data. It’s expensive for the amount you get ($10/Gb), but since I seldom use more than 1gb, it ends up cheaper overall.
More or less 0. Just like I don’t use my phone much, I seldom use any data. I don’t watch/listen to content on my phone, I don’t take much photos. I don’t even check my emails.
I just checked on their website, for January I’m sitting at an impressive 360 megs (130 giga available monthly) but this month is a massive increase in my usual data consumption as I’ve taken a lot more pictures than I use to (we’re visiting new apartments).
I pay 12€/m each for both my spouse and mine (each with a 130g plan that we never use, it’s the smallest plan we could get), plus 2€/m for a third line that has no data plan at all (that we use as a ‘trash/publicly shared number’ we almost never answer). This cheap plan could suit us if it wasn’t that limited when moving abroad (the reason why I pay for those 130g plans we don’t use is they don’t have those limits) and if it had some data associated to it for those rare times when we need it, like it just happened this month. Those plans are all without engagement (and we provide our own phones)
Here in France, customers need to regularly check their invoice to make sure the operator has not silently activated a new ‘feature’ free ‘for the first month’ that automatically switch to the paid tier the following month. Without the customer asking anything. It happens very often. And it can quickly ad up.
You just might be. I use about 10GB per month but mostly when I commute. At home and other places there is usually wifi to use.
According to my carrier, I use an average of 17GB. Work WiFi isn’t always reliable so sometimes I just let loose. I pay $25 monthly for unlimited, so it’s not like I have to worry about it.
I suspect that it wildly varies based on user.
If you use video streaming from, say, YouTube and TikTok heavily, and you do so outside of WiFi networks, I bet that you can burn through a lot of data pretty quickly.
Another user could be sitting on Lemmy or whatever all day every day and just not use much data.
Of course, I’m just surprised there is practically no market for low usage people.
I bought 1gb data-only esim several months ago. I think I have 500mb left. Mostly, I use wifi when at home and out. The phone is degoogled (so it uses very little data) and I have data saver on all the time. Most of my data usage is during a power outage.
20 euro, unlimited calls and data. Though i dont buy it every month only when I’ll need it.
50GB for £7.95 a month. I probably use between 10-20GB, depending on what I’ve got going on in my life.
At home I use my home internet so I don’t use the phone’s data there and I don’t track it at all.
Outside my house. I noticed that I doubled my data usage since joining Lemmy, from 3-4GB per month to 6-7GB. I suspect that this is mosly because the app I’m using doesn’t seem to hold much on cache, every time I’m scrolling back up it’s all loading icons.
My career is a lot of sitting around idle time babysitting machines so I do actually use my mobile data. Usually 20-30GB usage unless I feel like binging a show. 80GB cap. So, if I do that it’s 480p rips on Stremio.
I’m not seeing that itemized in my bill or providers portal. However I do pay for unlimited data so maybe they think it doesn’t matter
I looked at the year in review and I am the lowest data usage in my family with 48G last year. However I have poor cell reception at home so am usually on WiFi
It’s in your phone under your mobile connection
As far as I know, iPhones have no monthly detail. It’s only ‘since statistics was last reset’. I haven’t reset, but I got a new phone in October, so I have 16 hours of data, 292G since then
…… which is not at all similar to what my cell provider thinks
Edit: looking a bit further down the screen, apparently statistics aren’t reset with a new iPhone. 292G since July 31, 2018, which averages about 3.2G/month if my math is right, and that is similar to my cell providers data
620MB of data from last months usage. Generally all my data is via Wi-Fi as well.
That makes sense if it includes all your at home usage. So you can’t see the traffic on your phone while you are not on wifi?
The Wi-Fi data for the same period was 104GB
depends if I watch porn without wifi or not
Without wifi, my question is for phone traffic while you are not latched onto any wifi or broadband
Last month I used 1.6GB.
72,08GB so far in this month. Needed to do some searching on my phone as i did not know where to see it.
