Phone Data - How much do you use and what type of user are you?

[JackOfHearts]

750MB-1.5 GB/month.

News,streaming audio/video, social networking...

I almost never use wifi even at home because, VZW makes me pay for "unlimited" data.... If I pay for it I am gonna uses it....

 

[Anubis]

ive averaged ~5GB/ month for over a year, i think every month ive owned my droid except the first

almost all of it is streaming music when im at work. some vids some web browsing and such

 

[vshah]

7-10 gb a month, mostly browsing blocked sites at work, using remote desktop, and streaming music on long car rides (i take a couple interstate trips every month)

 

[Malak]

Sitting at 1.5gb right now, but just started using netflix on phone.

 

[Oyeve]

On average 1.5-2GB a month. Last december when I had major knee surgery and was in bed for nearly 2 months I was using my vibrant as a wap and easily surpassed 5gb in 3 days. Thats when I was first capped. TMO bastards.

 

[pete6032]

Bump.

Between 500mb - 1GB per month. Nearly all for RSS/Social Media/Email and a little music streaming.

On HTC One.

 

[ControlD]

Bump.

Why? Pretty sure most of the data usage documented in this 3.5 year old thread no longer reflects that of today's average user.

I guess it could be interesting if the original posters updated their usage now as compared to back then though ...

 

[openwheel]

200-400gb per month on Verizon. Tether all day long.

2gb per month when I had Straight Talk.

 

[Yuriman]

<500MB

I'm on Republic Wireless's $10 per month plan for unlimited talk + text, and I keep a Freedompop hotspot ($0 per month) in my car for navigation and looking up numbers.

I use a ton of data on WiFi but it's rare that I need more than a few kilobytes and am not near a hotspot. In a pinch, I can switch to RW's $25 plan on the fly (prorated, so it only costs like 50 cents) using their app and use as much data as I want.

 

[holden j caufield]

<500MB

I'm on Republic Wireless's $10 per month plan for unlimited talk + text, and I keep a Freedompop hotspot ($0 per month) in my car for navigation and looking up numbers.

I use a ton of data on WiFi but it's rare that I need more than a few kilobytes and am not near a hotspot. In a pinch, I can switch to RW's $25 plan on the fly (prorated, so it only costs like 50 cents) using their app and use as much data as I want.

Nice but that's only 2x a month you can do that on the fly correct?

 

[sgrinavi]

1.5 GB/month per device at the most. Never gone over 2 GB even when my wifi was down. I don't stream video OTA, music on rare occasions.

 

[tsupersonic]

Between 1.5-2.5 GB/month on AT&T. Mostly from streaming video/podcasts/internet surfing. Rollover data started on 1/25, so let's see what I can take into 2/25 billing cycle

 

[Yuriman]

Nice but that's only 2x a month you can do that on the fly correct?

Yeah, but so far that's been enough. With the free hotspot, and abundant WiFi, I find myself very rarely in need of paying for cellular data.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

200-400gb per month on Verizon. Tether all day long.

2gb per month when I had Straight Talk.

People shouldn't abuse the networks like that...

 

[aranatecharete]

I mostly use Facebook and Youtube and average around 700 - 800 MB per month.

 

[magomago]

Used to be around 3- 5 Gigs because I'd be constantly streaming spotify. I actually still do, but Tmobile no longer counts music against your limit as long as the app registers and qualifies with tmobile.

Then it dropped down to about 2.5 gigs per month. I do web browsing, youtube, some light games, and team speak, surfing the AT forums, and GPS navigation mostly.

I'd think 200MB would be terrible to deal with.

That said, one thing that you should note is that the more capable your phone is, the more data it will use. A lot of that is because the more capable your phone, the more you will use it for everything around you.

I had a BB9000 that I loved for the keyboard, but it was a PITA for anything beyond text. I ended up installing opera browser, and then killing all images because all it took were a few images to make my experience terrible...so I got used to reading walls of text. Walls of text don't amount to that much data 🙂

 

[openwheel]

People shouldn't abuse the networks like that...

I pay for unlimited unthrottled data at a premium, and I am going to use it. Sounds like you are just jealous or trying to get back from being outed. My towers are wide open without congestion all day long, so why do you care?

 

[Oyeve]

I pay for unlimited unthrottled data at a premium, and I am going to use it. Sounds like you are just jealous or trying to get back from being outed. My towers are wide open without congestion all day long, so why do you care?

Word.

 

[gmaster456]

I average about less than 1gb a month. Maybe 2gb if its an extremely heavy month and that usually includes netflix/youtube.

I'm a light user. I'm on wifi most of the time and when I'm not I'm usually just checking social networks or sports scores.

 

[Chocu1a]

I use 6-8gb a month on average. I stream Netflix at the gym & Google play for 10hrs a day at work. Never use wifi on my phone as I pay a premium for unlimited on Verizon.

 

[Yuriman]

I use 6-8gb a month on average. I stream Netflix at the gym & Google play for 10hrs a day at work. Never use wifi on my phone as I pay a premium for unlimited on Verizon.

I expect streaming over Wi-Fi would use less battery, FWIW.

 

[ControlD]

I use 6-8gb a month on average. I stream Netflix at the gym & Google play for 10hrs a day at work. Never use wifi on my phone as I pay a premium for unlimited on Verizon.

What kind of premium? You aren't grandfathered in on an unlimited plan?

Hell, my wife and I pay something like $180 a month for 2GB each, but that means we don't have unlimited text or talk (we would have to share 2GB if we changed plans).

I use right about 1.9GB of data a month, mainly streaming Google Play Music. I have my phone set to alert me when I hit that level so I make sure not to exceed that 2GB cap. Our IT department recently blocked all cell phones from using WiFi, so that 2GB cap comes up a lot quicker than it used to.

 

[bearxor]

I was on the 10GB AT&T plan until a few months ago. I usually used around 8GB of data and my wife used the other 1 or so.

I would always have to slow down the last three or four days of the month because I'd be approaching the 10GB limit. I also regularly used wifi at work for streaming video so that it didn't impact my data plan.

But a couple of months ago I jumped on AT&T's double data promotion and grabbed the 30GB plan. It only cost me $24/mo more after discounts.

So now I let everything fly and don't use wifi outside of my house at all. I've always hated using wifi I don't have control over so that was a big deal for me. So now I'm averaging around 17GB/mo. Wife still uses less than 1GB on average.

 

[bearxor]

What kind of premium? You aren't grandfathered in on an unlimited plan?

Hell, my wife and I pay something like $180 a month for 2GB each, but that means we don't have unlimited text or talk (we would have to share 2GB if we changed plans).

I use right about 1.9GB of data a month, mainly streaming Google Play Music. I have my phone set to alert me when I hit that level so I make sure not to exceed that 2GB cap. Our IT department recently blocked all cell phones from using WiFi, so that 2GB cap comes up a lot quicker than it used to.

Why not change to a data share plan? You'd get unlimited minutes and text and 10GB of data and if you take the contract route it's $160 before taxes so you'd pay around the same amount every month but have 6 extra GB's to play with.

 

[ControlD]

Why not change to a data share plan? You'd get unlimited minutes and text and 10GB of data and if you take the contract route it's $160 before taxes so you'd pay around the same amount every month but have 6 extra GB's to play with.

It pretty much comes down to laziness on my part. I kept meaning to change to the loyalty plan but they got rid of the good one. I have a feeling once I decide to upgrade I will see about changing plans at the same time.