Your Smart Phone usage

[tvguy]

4 phones. 72 minutes total calls. 2,986 texts total. 1.024 GB data.

DS some how managed to sent 1,967 texts. That's like 3 an hour 24 hours a day for the month.

I used 4 minutes of calls and 177 texts.
I pulled my bill from 1990. I used 20 minutes of calls then, and of course, zero texts or data.

 

[Narnia_girl]

If we could get by on 1.024 GB of data, I'd be dancing like you. Our current plan is 17GB and we use every bit of it.

 

[skysmom99]

With 10 days left of the cycle:

5 phones
2.59 GB of data
914 minutes
902 texts

Usually our texts are about triple that but my daughter broke up with her boyfriend.

 

[run13point1]

Like Narnia_girl, I use a ton of data. I'm 9 days into my bill cycle and am at 8.325GB, and it's just me on the plan. I don't use many minutes, but text a ton.

I'm curious to know how much you paid in 1990 for your 20 minutes. The first cell phone I had was prepaid and I don't remember how much I paid each month.

 

[tvguy]

Like Narnia_girl, I use a ton of data. I'm 9 days into my bill cycle and am at 8.325GB, and it's just me on the plan. I don't use many minutes, but text a ton.

I'm curious to know how much you paid in 1990 for your 20 minutes. The first cell phone I had was prepaid and I don't remember how much I paid each month.

25 cents a minute 7 am to 7 pm, 15 cents a minute 7 pm to 7 am. Base bill was $19.95, my airtime averages about $5 a month, so my bill was about $25 a month. My bag phone cost me $400 to buy, there were no free phones in those days.

 

[tvguy]

If we could get by on 1.024 GB of data, I'd be dancing like you. Our current plan is 17GB and we use every bit of it.

Only reason my data is that HIGH is because DD got mad at how slow our home internet was a couple of nights and tethered her laptop to her phone! I think our record for this plan going back 2 years is 2GB and that was when we were driving for a week across Texas and using Google maps as our GPS. But we have wifi at home and work, so phones latch onto that most of the time.

 

[StitchandPooh'sMom]

Four days into our cycle, and DD13 has already sent over 400 texts. Good thing we have unlimited texting!

 

[scrapquitler]

4 phones. 72 minutes total calls. 2,986 texts total. 1.024 GB data.

DS some how managed to sent 1,967 texts. That's like 3 an hour 24 hours a day for the month.

I used 4 minutes of calls and 177 texts.
I pulled my bill from 1990. I used 20 minutes of calls then, and of course, zero texts or data.

Our current billing period ends on Monday. DH and I share 12 GB data, unlimited texts and unlimited minutes.

This month, with two days remaining on our plan, we have used 10.1 GB data, 555 minutes of calls, and 867 texts. Our texts used to be in te 4-5000 range, until we switched to the Facebook Messenger app for most of our texting. This months calls are lower than normal because DH spent more days than usual in the office, so he spent less time on the phone. We always use almost all of our data because we spend a lot of time in a place without WiFi access.

 

[disneychrista]

How do people use so much data? I have never used more than 1gb and usually not even .5gb.

 

[belle1986]

How do people use so much data? I have never used more than 1gb and usually not even .5gb.

For me it's because I live out in the sticks with no wifi. I have 20gb on my plan alone.

 

[tvguy]

Our current billing period ends on Monday. DH and I share 12 GB data, unlimited texts and unlimited minutes.

This month, with two days remaining on our plan, we have used 10.1 GB data, 555 minutes of calls, and 867 texts. Our texts used to be in te 4-5000 range, until we switched to the Facebook Messenger app for most of our texting. This months calls are lower than normal because DH spent more days than usual in the office, so he spent less time on the phone. We always use almost all of our data because we spend a lot of time in a place without WiFi access.

Holy crow. 4,000 tests is like over 5 and hour, 24 hours a day, for every month. How is that even possible?

 

[scrapquitler]

Holy crow. 4,000 tests is like over 5 and hour, 24 hours a day, for every month. How is that even possible?

Well if DH texts me, it counts twice - one for me and one for him, so it isn't as many as it seems. And they used to use texts for work so they are in a group chat with 7 or 8 people even while they are on the phone, its easy to rack up a couple hundred in an hour or two that way. It was a lot worse when we had a teenager on our plan.

 

[scrapquitler]

How do people use so much data? I have never used more than 1gb and usually not even .5gb.

We spend about half our time in a place that is out in the sticks and has no wifi.

 

[mrudman]

Our cycle ends in 3 days and this is what we've used this month.

3 iPhones:

124 minutes
478 texts
1.3 Gb data

Usually we're under 1 Gb data each month, but I accidentally downloaded a few things thinking I was under wifi.

Our bill will be about $55 this month (on Ting) for the 3 of us.

 

[tvguy]

Well if DH texts me, it counts twice - one for me and one for him, so it isn't as many as it seems. .

Wow, I didn't think any cell phone carrier charged both ways anymore on texts.

 

[ShirikiUtundu]

I think the better question is why do you still have a bill from 1990 laying around? It's time to clear the clutter tvguy

 

[scrapquitler]

Wow, I didn't think any cell phone carrier charged both ways anymore on texts.

Did that change? I know it used to be that way. I thought it was still the same.

 

[tvguy]

Did that change? I know it used to be that way. I thought it was still the same.

Actually, as I recall with Verizon, if it is from a Verizon phone, to a verizon phone, there is no charge. But we have an unlimited plan so it doesn't matter.

 

[wenrob]

5 phones
2iPads
17 days into cycle

Phone minutes: Doesn't actually give me a number because we have unlimited. It would be higher than usual though as my Dad had surgery and we had family visiting so lots of phone calls leading up to that.

Data: 4.18 GB out of 20 and 9 rollover. We have access to WiFi just about everywhere. All but oldest DD keep our music on our devices. If we want movies, TV, books etc. we download before we go. Data use goes up when DH is on night shift.

Text: 534 BUT we are iPhone users as are most we know. The vast majority of our texting is through iMessage. I'm sure it's in the thousands as it's our primary form of communication. Our plan has unlimited text though so it really wouldn't matter.

How do people use so much data? I have never used more than 1gb and usually not even .5gb.

Streaming and cloud services are pretty much now the norm. A good portion of people stream their content rather than download it. Streaming a movie or playing an online video game without the benefit of WiFi uses a ton of data. Oldest DD streams her music while driving which doesn't take a whole lot but her data usage is higher than the rest of ours. A lot of people also turn WiFi off so that their phones aren't searching for WiFi and draining their batteries. I tend to turn mine off when on vacation because it's not as easily accessible as it is here. And as mentioned, lots of people just don't have access to WiFi. DH no longer has it at work which is why his data goes up on night shift.

Our cycle ends in 3 days and this is what we've used this month.

3 iPhones:

124 minutes
478 texts
1.3 Gb data

Usually we're under 1 Gb data each month, but I accidentally downloaded a few things thinking I was under wifi.

Our bill will be about $55 this month (on Ting) for the 3 of us.

I don't know what kind of phone you have but on an iPhone you can set it up so you can't do that. You can turn off data use for just about every function and app. This is how I have my younger kids phones set up so I don't get a big surprise on my bill, lol.

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

Our billing cycle rolls over on the 19th and with 4 phones we have used about 13gb of data (out of our 40gb), 800 minutes and 1000 text messages.

The reason for the high data is both my work and my daughter's school wifi are restricted on what you can do and block a lot of apps and websites. I also have my parents on my plan and my mom's work has no wifi at all and my dad is a truck driver so no wifi on the road.