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?
2-3GB. a day.
But I have a gradfathered unlimited data plan from like 18 years ago and I pay basically nothing, so I don’t have any reason to limit it.
I have a 15GB plan shared among 5 phones for 4 people. We usually use around 8-10GB. It brings my total bill for all 5 phones to $150/month.
I pay $80/month for high speed cable Internet for the house and I regularly update the wifi router. At work/school the wife and kids have wifi.
I even pay $225 per year for unlimited Wi-Fi in my work truck.
Romania, currently paying 2€ / month for 75GB, never had to worry, didn’t even knew the cap until now - I thought it was unlimited. At most I used 20GB / month which to be honest surprised me a bit.
Pretty happy with Digi
$40 for “unlimited” that says it gets throttled after 50GB but in reality doesn’t. So like 500GB a month. When I had broadband and a 1tb cap I would often hit that and move torrents to my phone.
Yea, us low data users are the exception, so they don’t market to us.
In the US, USMobile has about the best rates for low data plans. I think I’m paying $20/mo for 2 lines at 4GB (shared), and adding more data in a month is cheap. So cheap I’ve set it to automatically add more if I go over.
I get around 70GB with unlimited everything aside from international calling and roaming on my plan, I typically only use around 10 a month. They recently started offering 150GB plans for an extra 5$. My plan is $50/mo.
The key is to negotiate your plan, never go with the advertised plan. Spend an hour or two on the phone or in the store to get yourself a deal.
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.
About 20 GB a month because I don’t have Wi-Fi, so I have to do everything on mobile data. I used to use less than 2 GB half a year ago (in the same situation) and it has gone up over the months as I do more things on my mobile data.
I’m also exceptionally low usage. But I was able to find a very small plan for a very low price
If you can’t get away from big data plans, can you tether other devices to your phone? Like supply your home Internet from the cellular data connection?
It was not uncommon for me to hit warnings that I’d used 50G. I changed the warnings to 70G at some point and still got the warning a few times
Two plans, both unlimited calls and data. One is 30€, the other 15€ (the more expensive one has significantly higher speeds), on two different networks.
Depending on the moth, I tend to use 50-100 GB/month.
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.
Dunno. I get unlimited so I’ve not checked in years.
Probably about 2GB ish, given I’m usually on WiFi
According to my device:
- September: 30mb
- October: 153mb
- November: 652mb
- December: 889mb
Not sure why September was so low, but I’m not surprised it’s <1gb/mo. I didn’t really have unlimited data until a couple of years ago, and I don’t really sit around watching videos out of the house. It’s mostly music, which my music is all downloaded on my phone anyway.
The spike in November is because I moved. I started walking to the store, and the internet here is less consistent, so I’m using my data more.
Nice, that’s refreshing
My operator gives me 150gb for 7.99€. It actually started with 30gb for the same price but they’ve been upgrading my gb almost yearly without price increase.
As I stream music from my jellyfin server for around 6-8 hours a day (most of my office time) and watch some shows on my lunch time, my monthly consumption is around 60-70gb a month.
But simply because I know I have more than enough to not worry about the streaming quality of my files, otherwise I’d be at maybe 10 or so.
Similar here yeah. FLAC file streaming is the majority of my usage.
Yeah… I actually sat down and listened to a more recent album on FLAC and 128kbps MP3 and realized I had no idea which was which, so I figured that either my speakers, or my ears weren’t HD enough to be worth the storage space xD Switched my entire library to MP3 after that
does the work not allow you to use their WiFi?
I work for a somewhat big company with one of the dumbest IT depts ever. On top of not wanting to risk being spied on what I do or not do with my private phone and life, there’s also the fact that their rules for a “safe browsing” are really, REALLY stupid (like blocking access to Siemens website because they use “weird” protocols to transfer files for their devices firmware or their webinars: p2p).
I find more often than not having to do a hotspot with my phone so I can connect with my computer to simply access work related websites because IT is just too dumb to understand that in a company there should be different network profiles depending on the worker and, instead, they apply a general rule in which they consider the same “threats” for a marketing employee than for an OT (operational technologies) employee.
