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?
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’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
Dunno. I get unlimited so I’ve not checked in years.
Probably about 2GB ish, given I’m usually on WiFi
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 use about 1 - 2GB per month of my 40GB so I have way more mobile data available than I need.
I think it’s interesting that they increased the price for your plan. I live in Germany and I think the only thing that’s constantly getting cheaper are these mobile data plans. They always upgrade the data but the price stays the same.
You and I, on the same page I guess.
What happened with the price increase was that all major providers are ditching the 4g network only plans, and now all their plans have 5g as well as 4g access. This comes with better speeds and whatnot. And this also “justifies” their price increase.
However, I don’t care - I have no need for 5G network. My phone isn’t even capable of using it. It’s not even an old phone, I got it a bit over a year ago.
They didn’t charge me yet, they sent a warning that they will do so next month unless I cancel.
I suspect for some reason they want to get rid of all low data users, but I don’t understand why. Very few carriers have options for people who need less than 10 GB a month.
Usually between 1 and 2 GB/month, up to 10 in months where I travel, which happens about two or three times a year.
I have a plan which increases my data cap each year, giving me 30 GB currently. It’s 20 €/month, which is about average for a 5G plan of that size. I like not having to worry about my data usage.
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I average about 6gb on mobile data and 150gb on WiFi. I download a lot of stuff.
I’m on a 30gb tariff and they keep trying to get me on unlimited mobile data which is totally pointless
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.
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.
Similar here yeah. FLAC file streaming is the majority of my usage.
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.
50GB for £7.95 a month. I probably use between 10-20GB, depending on what I’ve got going on in my life.
Over all of my SIMs combined, around 20Gigs. This means my phone, my car, my work laptop, and this one hobby project that involves an LTE modem.
