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Smartphones have evolved into hyper-powerful devices capable of handling multimedia, such as YouTube videos, admirably. With their appetite for data only going up, how much data will be enough to satisfy your online needs?
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A recent survey conducted by the National Purchase Diary (NPD) found the vast majority of smartphone users rarely exceed 2GB of usage per each month. In their assessment of three US carriers, T-mobile users were the most data hungry with 11% exceeding 3GB each month, while AT&T (4%) and Verizon (3%) had fewer users exceeding 3GBs due to a younger demographic.
The survey sampled 1,000 smartphone users and measured data based on the in-built Android data gauge.
In Australia, excess data usage is charged per megabyte according to carrier pricing. Vodafone’s $49 plan comes with 1GB of data and charges every megabyte in excess at 25 cents, as does Optus’ $50 plan. At that rate, 500 megabytes over will result in an extra $125 charge on your phone bill.
Often applications running in the background will continue to download data from the internet without users knowing. These include apps like Facebook, Twitter, Weather updates and email accounts. Often, how frequent these applications check the internet can be controlled periodically or updated manually to the user’s preference.
A word of the wise is to check your usage weekly and, if using an Android phone, nominate a mobile data limit under the data usage option. Also jumping on available WiFi networks will help hedge your data usage.
