I wish that instead of 2gb/month I could do 12 gb/6 months. My data usage spikes a little on weekends and a lot when I travel, but during the workweek it's pretty flat, so I'd want to save it up for those long trips.
Their theory is that you'll never use 2 GB on your phone alone, so if you want to tether, you'll actually use close to 2GB, and well, that's an extra charge, citizen.
I average 2gb because I restrict myself since the rates I get are outreageous here in the US... I use wifi whenever I can to limit mobile usage (which is of course not included in the 2gb figure).
I was on a 2GB data plan for most of this past decade, despite being terminally online, it never really got in the way. Would still share pictures immediately, they aren't that big (and most services compress video down to too horrible quality for it to be worth sharing). Still never managed to hit 2GB in a month.
The vast majority of my data usage now, on unlimited, comes from watching YouTube.
I live in a 4g/5g country (with 5g disabled on my phone because it seems to perform worse than 4g), with a 2gb/month data plan. I've usually stayed inside my data budget, but I'm cutting it a little close this month and I've blown past it a couple of times when I've forgotten to switch back to wifi. Sure, I live in a country where I can buy infinite data, but I don't see the point when I rarely use more than 2gb, and a 2gb plan is cheaper
I use under 2GB per month but with so much going mobile, I can easily see myself pushing that limit soon. Cell phone carriers shouldn't be afraid of growth.
Unlimited data here is rare (or too expensive), usually normal people have 5-10gb a month. Still it covers most web and messaged stuff, just don’t watch too much video….
Which provider are you using? I use mobifone and constantly have to buy data packages for 10K as 1.5GB only lasts me ~0.7 days. 2GB/day would be the sweetspot.
For people with 200MB & 500MB data caps (which is a surprisingly large number of people), this is a significant amount of their data allowance.
These are likely to be people that are still required to go out into the world and work, so are still using their data instead of wifi, and thus higher risk.
It's easy to forget when you're on 10GB+ data plans for years just how many people are not.
> I don't think you could keep up with app updates alone much less actually "do" anything with only 300 megs/month.
You probably don't want to have automatic over the air app updates enabled. In fact, I'm not even sure if that's an option. Honestly, 300 MB/month would be sufficient for most months even for me, and I'm a fairly heavy user on LTE. I pay for the 2GB plan mostly to cover months where my usage peaks. I suspect that 8 months a year I use less than 300 MB/month, and I use iTunes Match, occasional video streaming, and occasional Facetime calls.
I've read that elsewhere, but that doesn't match my experience in the New England area on TMO. I had my connection completely croak after my phone read 2GB of data usage. Maybe the behavior is different in different geographic areas?
(The last time I went over 2GB was a year ago on TMO when my home internet wasn't yet installed, so for me it's basically academic.)
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