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Same as op, one or two gigs, at most. Usually under a gig. Very rarely, I have to create a hot-spot for my laptop which might increase the numbers a bit.
I don't even know how much data my operator allows for, 150 gigs maybe, or maybe it's unlimited nowadays, I'd have to look it up.
About 120 GB a month. Luckily, data is unlimited.
I love how you get a warning at 2GB
It's hard to burn through half a terrabyte in a month
UK:
£5/m contract for 5GB data. Only run out once when traveling.
Looking back, I normally use about 2gb of data and 30gb of WiFi a month on my phone. Most stuff is done on my PC or laptop.
Nice. That sounds like an affordable deal.
I'm impressed at the wild variety of responses here, and also that so many don't seem to mind paying for something they don't use.
This is the cheapest I could find that wasn't dodgy in some way.
Previously I was pay as you go at 1p/mb on a different supplier, but that got discontinued.
$110/month for 6GB data but this is the US where mobile data is expensive as shit.
I usually use around 300MB
EDIT: $110 for two lines with data shared between them. The other person on the account uses more like 3GB/month and I find it funny to compare our data usage.
That's a typo, right ? Six gigabytes for a hundred and ten dollars? I'm sure I've seen better deals from others in the US in this post. Sounds rough!
tldr: Failed to mention that was total price for two lines. I added an EDIT to the original post, more info below.
Unfortunately no, and that's with a 20% discount from my previous employer. Although I should have specified that that price is for two lines with the 6GB shared between them with rollover. I look at different plans at my current carrier every now and then but they're the same or more expensive for ""unlimited"" data (typically throttled at around 3GB).
I really need to find the motivation to switch to a prepaid plan because those can be had much cheaper. Plus my current carrier is a shitass and I really shouldn't be giving them money. I've been eyeing https://www.phreeli.com/ lately...
You need motivation? Think of how much you would save over a year. Because it is an ongoing expense. At the moment you are spending $1320 dollars every year if my math is right. Judging from most comments here, prepaid plans are around $30 a month or so, that's a massive difference! What would you do with $900 to spare? Also most carriers let you keep your number, right? So what's to lose?
You gave me the motivation I needed. I started the transfer last night. Thanks bud.
Yassss!
Basically not much. This month, 133 megabytes as of 18th of January. And all of it it's free anyway.
I don't really need mobile data aside of stints to the town, every place I need to go to probably has Wi-Fi anyway. We have a municipal Wi-Fi network at public institutions, it probably helps a lot. (And I don't even use free wifi at commercial institutions.)
5 to 15GB per month. I work a job out of office/home, so I am almost never on wifi. My plan is 60GB though so I just stopped thinking about it a long time ago. Even being out of town in hotels streaming YouTube and Jellyfin I have never gone over 20GB.
Before this job I had 250MB and almost never hit it, only using carrier rewards to get extra data during travel months.
Germany, Unlimited (around 50 or so GB and need to manually top it up once reached to extend) 5G (not quite lol) for around 20€/month
Usually consume around 5gb.
If I feel adventurous I can consume as mich as I want because I'll start streaming from my server.
My usage is pretty high - currently up to 40 gigabytes for January. I tend to do 60-70 per month, mostly thanks to music streaming without a ton of local storage. I broke 100 gigs in December though; more than once, I found myself wasting my holiday breaks watching Instagram reels.
I also travel for work, hardly any of this usage was over wifi.
I got 25gb monthly plan. I utilize around 7-10gb monthly.
I have a 100GB/month for about 13€/month.
I use between 10 and 30
Looks like I use 18GB a month on average. Took a trip recently though and was using 50GB a day to stream video. I pay for unlimited data because I don’t like to worry about it. Data use is not something that is easy to really track.
I have unlimited date and have used about 6GB this month. Costs me $65/month.
Usually I get a text message a few days before the monthly data reset saying how I've used 50GB but at least I still get unlimited.
500 GB carrier data?
Edit: sorry I must cut down on the alcohol, I'm seeing double digits. You said 50 not 500...
I mean, I've had unlimited data for ages, so it doesn't matter. Around 36gb this month, just checked. But really, almost every mobile plan here is unlimited data. Finland has gooooood mobile network.
Just looked through the carrier app, I seem to hover around 3gb monthly.
I could comfortably lower this down to 1gb tbh, but like you I have a plan with rollover and a toooon of data built up so lately I don't even bother trying to save. Most places I just stay on Data even if I could log into their WiFi.
I'm the same, in the sense of not bothering to save... I'm just surprised the current market is forcing us to pay so much extra for something a lot of people don't need.
I use around 15 GB a month out of 150. Data is cheap where I live.
Nearly zero since I almost never use the internet outside of home. If I know I'll be traveling, I have a separate wi-fi hotspot I pay for (a bit under 100k JPY yearly). My phone bill yearly is less than 35k JPY (usually closer to 33k but leaving a buffer in case I make a lot of outgoing calls)
I have a 20GB subscription for just under €30, but I normally use just over 10, so I have around 30GB at the start of every month.
Even if ran by many of the same companies, prices have always been higher in Norway than in most of the rest of the continent, both because of the more complicated infrastructure, but also because we sadly are willing to pay more. Cheaper brands appear all the time by renting the bigger companies infrastructure, but they never last long, so I've opted for a little more expensive to not have to switch out operator once a year. So yeah, I'm part of the problem.
Yes that's a similar situation to Australia. But here I've seen some of these cheaper brands succeed, in fact my current (soon to be previous) carrier started this way a few years ago. And just like you, I could have saved some buck had I moved to a different plan earlier, but I didn't mind the old price so I didn't bother searching.
543MiB last month. I mostly use the cell data for maps and messaging
My phone plan is $5 a month, for 100gib, after I hit the cap the speed gets limited to 384kbps... I'm no where near hitting my monthly cap.
I snatched a no-monthly-payment plan sometime around 2010, and am holding to it for dear life — even though it hasn't been offered to new clients for a long time. Thankfully, where I am, the provider can't change the defining conditions of my plan.
I rarely call anyone, and don't use the internet on the phone outside of WiFi networks (I listen to downloaded podcasts and read downloaded articles instead, and use OsmAnd for maps). Which means that the fifteen bucks that I paid over three years ago still haven't been used.
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
About Digi, here in Portugal it's a bit iffy. Sometimes calls don't arrive, mobile data doesn't work in the subway, along with some other nitpicks, but it's definitely gotten better since I started using it. I get unlimited data for fairly cheap which is cool.
It's not like I need to be connected to the internet at all times, so my biggest peeve is definitely the fact that for some ungodly reason whenever I stop getting mobile data I need to fully reboot my phone to get it back again. Turning mobile data on and off, or setting airplane mode on and off doesn't work for some reason.
But something to take into account is that (and this is purely anecdotal) coincidentally the moment I started using digi, I started getting spam calls en masse, specifically from Iberdrola. Most of the time once a day, but at some point it reached multiple times a day. I never answered, but would search the number online and see that it was spam. Though it could very much have been a coincidence, it still makes digi feel a bit sus to me. Rarely do I ever use it without a vpn.
I WFH so between 3 - 4gb per month on mobile network. If I'm on holiday or have to head to the office more for some reason it'll go up.
Most of it is audio, either music or podcasts, so with a bit of planning I could pre-download stuff on WiFi if I needed to cut down.
I'm in the UK and totally agree the packages are just ridiculous in price and data limits, I get by on £5 a month rolling - Lebara, Lyca - seem to offer the best small deals.
For comparison I use 30-40gb on WiFi.
Interesting you mentioned Lyca as a provider of small deals. I'm in Australia and we also have Lyca here, it's not super popular but they have one of the most affordable plans. I didn't pick it because they don't offer keeping your previous phone number.
It's a legal requirement in the UK. Mobile number is used in so many places it's effectively acting as an ID.
This fosters consumer choice and supports effective competition by removing barriers to switching – being able to keep your number may impact your decision to change provider.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/phone-numbers/number-portability-info
More or less 0. Just like I don't use my phone much, I seldom use any data. I don't watch/listen to content on my phone, I don't take much photos. I don't even check my emails.
I just checked on their website, for January I'm sitting at an impressive 360 megs (130 giga available monthly) but this month is a massive increase in my usual data consumption as I've taken a lot more pictures than I use to (we're visiting new apartments).
I pay 12€/m each for both my spouse and mine (each with a 130g plan that we never use, it's the smallest plan we could get), plus 2€/m for a third line that has no data plan at all (that we use as a 'trash/publicly shared number' we almost never answer). This cheap plan could suit us if it wasn't that limited when moving abroad (the reason why I pay for those 130g plans we don't use is they don't have those limits) and if it had some data associated to it for those rare times when we need it, like it just happened this month. Those plans are all without engagement (and we provide our own phones)
Here in France, customers need to regularly check their invoice to make sure the operator has not silently activated a new 'feature' free 'for the first month' that automatically switch to the paid tier the following month. Without the customer asking anything. It happens very often. And it can quickly ad up.
20 euro, unlimited calls and data. Though i dont buy it every month only when I'll need it.
Less than 2GB for me. I only get 2GB cuz prepaid. I don't have anybody to text or videochat and I can't stand browsing the web on small screens. My phone is low end and even then, I don't like spending my time using it for gaming. I personally don't like putting important stuff on it since somebody can steal it from me. I basically just use it for calling.
I'm reliably 7-8GB. It's kind of impressive, honestly, since I don't think I'm too consistent day to day
My actual phone doesn't have data, my home internet uses mobile data though as I have a 4G router. That is averaging about 4TB/year, or 333GB/month, I pay £24/month for unlimited data on that.
My career is a lot of sitting around idle time babysitting machines so I do actually use my mobile data. Usually 20-30GB usage unless I feel like binging a show. 80GB cap. So, if I do that it's 480p rips on Stremio.
It varies, but so far this month (day 11) I'm at 80GB and 300GB a month isn't unusual. At home and work I typically get 500+ Mbps download so I don't tend to bother with WiFi. I'm currently paying £12/mo for a SIM-only service.
You don't use WiFi at all and all traffic is by phone? Wow that sounds intense
