I rarely use over 2GB of data per month. Usually most of my data traffic happens over wifi. Curious.

If you want to know why I’m asking:

My phone provider just decided to upgrade my subscription plan some ridiculous amount. I was on a cheap prepaid 18GB every 28 days plan, with data rollover. (I got nearly 900 GB of rollover data just sitting there, accumulated over the years).

Now they increased both their price and data cap about +60%. For me this is absolutely unnecessary. I was already paying for more than what I used.

Then I tried to switch providers, and realized this is the new baseline in the country, at least for monthly prepaid. Eventually I found a few providers that offer something more affordable, but it’s only long expiry plans with a lot less data. Works for me though, not complaining.

I’m just surprised with the sheer amounts in most monthly plans, am I some kind of low usage freak?

  • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    11 minutes ago

    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.

    • Mothra@mander.xyzOP
      1·
      9 minutes ago

      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.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    9 minutes ago

    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.

  • clif@lemmy.world
    2·
    24 minutes ago

    $110/month for 6GB data but this is the US where mobile data is expensive as shit.

    I usually use around 300MB

    • Mothra@mander.xyzOP
      1·
      5 minutes ago

      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!

  • Rose@slrpnk.net
    2·
    2 hours ago

    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.)

  • STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 hours ago

    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.

  • favoredponcho@lemmy.zip
    2·
    5 hours ago

    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.

  • Ajel@lemmy.world
    2·
    8 hours ago

    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.

  • d00ery@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 hours ago

    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.

    • Mothra@mander.xyzOP
      1·
      10 hours ago

      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.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    3·
    13 hours ago

    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.

    • Mothra@mander.xyzOP
      3·
      7 hours ago

      500 GB carrier data?

      Edit: sorry I must cut down on the alcohol, I’m seeing double digits. You said 50 not 500…

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    13 hours ago

    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.

    • Mothra@mander.xyzOP
      3·
      12 hours ago

      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.