How much data do you use on your smart phone?

[cisamcgu]

I don't even know what "tethering" is !

 

[SavageHoutkop]

I don't even know what "tethering" is !

Essentially sharing the phone's internet with another device (laptop, tablet, other phones)

 

[Electric_Andy]

I went into the 3 Mobile shop and asked for my avergae usage for the last few months. It went between 300 and 400 MB/month. I use wifi at home. I use data quite a lot but not for anything heavy, just browsing etc. So now I havea sim-only deal which is £5.50/month for 6 months, then £11 thereafter. I get 200 mins, infinite texts and 500mb data I think

 

[Lonestar]

Not much.I don't spend all day staring at my phone.

58mb last week apparently.I did watch something on UTube which took a lot of that up.Also checking footee scores.

no idea and not even sure how to check

Settings->DATA USAGE

Depends what phone you've got I guess.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

On a Vodafone full fat 'effectively no limits' sim-only contract that ocsts me an extra £3 per day if I use it in forenz. Except if I am ringing UK landlines of mobiles when the three squid doesn't apply. Wifi in work is patchy and unreliable, and they can't even get the BYOD network to accept the existence of a Surface Pro 4 so lots of hotspotery for me. Like right now in a deserted floor where they have ripped out the wifi in prep for a new tenant who isn't coming for nine months.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Zero Mb.

I asked Vodafone to switch the data off on mine when I got it. It's bad enough being contactable by phone and text when I'm out and about, I don't want to have to deal with poxy emails as well.

 

[Lonestar]

Zero Mb.

I asked Vodafone to switch the data off on mine when I got it. It's bad enough being contactable by phone and text when I'm out and about, I don't want to have to deal with poxy emails as well.

Oh I don't get emails to my phone because I don't want them.Get enough rubbish from O2*.

* I didn't type that link.

 

[Fnaar]

I don't even know what "tethering" is !

I had to get Miss Goddbody up the road to show me all about tethering.
I can walk again now, but it took a while.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I had to get Miss Goddbody up the road to show me all about tethering.
I can walk again now, but it took a while.

Did she give you any megabytes?

 

[Markymark]

Zero Mb.

I asked Vodafone to switch the data off on mine when I got it. It's bad enough being contactable by phone and text when I'm out and about, I don't want to have to deal with poxy emails as well.

Why not just disable email send/receive and do it manually this giving you the option of using data from everything else?

Or, assuming you have an iPhone (I mean, who doesn't), you can choose what has access to mobile data meaning you can disable it for mail leaving the auto send/receive on.

 

[nickyboy]

Zero Mb.

I asked Vodafone to switch the data off on mine when I got it. It's bad enough being contactable by phone and text when I'm out and about, I don't want to have to deal with poxy emails as well.

Not much usage here. I work from home so am on wifi most of the time. Probably 100MB a month; emails, internet, google maps, messaging etc when I'm out and about

 

[mjr]

Settings->DATA USAGE

Depends what phone you've got I guess.

Yes. Recent Android-based phones should also have Settings: Data usage: Set mobile data limit and then amber and red limit lines that you can move to make sure you shouldn't ever go over your limit.

I think phones should be supplied with that switched on and set up, but I bet the network operators would never let them out like that - do Three still supply phones with custom operating systems that have useful data management options disabled? If you can't use the built-in data limits (earlier Android or crippled network-customised version), there are apps you can download and install like NetCounter which can do most of the same monitoring but it's not as sure as having it built in.

Use the tools and IMO don't leave your data switched on while the phone's not in use. If you know enough, use things like OSMonitor or netstat to watch what your phone's trying to do online and kill or uninstall apps that try to hog the data. Try to live within your data limit, else it can get very expensive very quickly on some price plans.

 

[Jody]

Mobile data up to 2gb and combined data including wifi averages about 8-10gb per month.

Doesn't take long to get through mobile data though as round here 4g can get over 70 Mbps

 

[jayonabike]

Changed my plan when I upgraded my phone last month. I was on a 2gb a month but was running out with a week or so to go so I'm now on a 5gb a month tariff.
And now I have a 6s plus and am using it more than my old 5s for browsing the extra gb will come in handy.

 

[martint235]

10gb limit but try to hook onto wifi where possible. Not always possible though and a trip up north will easily put me over 5gb