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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.

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.

4GBish a month. I pay 25$ a month for 16gb

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.

Looks like 47 GiB across two lines last month.

We only use WiFi at home, not when out

I’m not seeing that itemized in my bill or providers portal. However I do pay for unlimited data so maybe they think it doesn’t matter

I looked at the year in review and I am the lowest data usage in my family with 48G last year. However I have poor cell reception at home so am usually on WiFi

620MB of data from last months usage. Generally all my data is via Wi-Fi as well.

I'm sitting on around 4.5gb with a third of the cycle to go. That's high for me, would be under 1gb if I wasn't watching the cricket for a bit on Boxing Day.

I'm mostly on the network at home or playing music from the memory card so don't need much at all, but 20gb is the lowest available with my provider.

I'm reliably 7-8GB. It's kind of impressive, honestly, since I don't think I'm too consistent day to day

72,08GB so far in this month. Needed to do some searching on my phone as i did not know where to see it.

Last month I used 1.6GB.

I had no idea so I went to check. I get over 75GB in my plan but I never go above 20. Currently sitting at 8 for the last 30 days. Non-carrier data usage does indeed exceed 75GB though :)

depends if I watch porn without wifi or not

According to my phone I use around 4/6GB per month (I have an unlimited plan). But I'm guessing you're in the US or Canada, I'm always boggled when I remember that data is expensive to you guys.

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

As a Canadian trapped under the Big Three, scrolling through this thread is killing me :(

I have 130GB at 70CAD/mo. It was the cheapest plan I could get with data. I don't need nearly that much. I use between 20-40GB/mo and that's only because I don't bother to turn on my WiFi since I know I'll never reach my limit.

2-3GB. a day.

But I have a gradfathered unlimited data plan from like 18 years ago and I pay basically nothing, so I don't have any reason to limit it.

Yea, us low data users are the exception, so they don't market to us.

In the US, USMobile has about the best rates for low data plans. I think I'm paying $20/mo for 2 lines at 4GB (shared), and adding more data in a month is cheap. So cheap I've set it to automatically add more if I go over.

I have a 15GB plan shared among 5 phones for 4 people. We usually use around 8-10GB. It brings my total bill for all 5 phones to $150/month.

I pay $80/month for high speed cable Internet for the house and I regularly update the wifi router. At work/school the wife and kids have wifi.

I even pay $225 per year for unlimited Wi-Fi in my work truck.

My operator gives me 150gb for 7.99€. It actually started with 30gb for the same price but they've been upgrading my gb almost yearly without price increase.

As I stream music from my jellyfin server for around 6-8 hours a day (most of my office time) and watch some shows on my lunch time, my monthly consumption is around 60-70gb a month.

But simply because I know I have more than enough to not worry about the streaming quality of my files, otherwise I'd be at maybe 10 or so.

I get around 70GB with unlimited everything aside from international calling and roaming on my plan, I typically only use around 10 a month. They recently started offering 150GB plans for an extra 5$. My plan is $50/mo.

The key is to negotiate your plan, never go with the advertised plan. Spend an hour or two on the phone or in the store to get yourself a deal.

I use very little, so I picked a plan with a pay-as-you-use data. It's expensive for the amount you get ($10/Gb), but since I seldom use more than 1gb, it ends up cheaper overall.

About 20 GB a month because I don't have Wi-Fi, so I have to do everything on mobile data. I used to use less than 2 GB half a year ago (in the same situation) and it has gone up over the months as I do more things on my mobile data.

At home I use my home internet so I don't use the phone's data there and I don't track it at all.

Outside my house. I noticed that I doubled my data usage since joining Lemmy, from 3-4GB per month to 6-7GB. I suspect that this is mosly because the app I'm using doesn't seem to hold much on cache, every time I'm scrolling back up it's all loading icons.

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.

I'm also exceptionally low usage. But I was able to find a very small plan for a very low price

If you can't get away from big data plans, can you tether other devices to your phone? Like supply your home Internet from the cellular data connection?

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.

It was not uncommon for me to hit warnings that I'd used 50G. I changed the warnings to 70G at some point and still got the warning a few times

20 euro, unlimited calls and data. Though i dont buy it every month only when I'll need it.

Dunno. I get unlimited so I've not checked in years.

Probably about 2GB ish, given I'm usually on WiFi

According to my carrier, I use an average of 17GB. Work WiFi isn't always reliable so sometimes I just let loose. I pay $25 monthly for unlimited, so it's not like I have to worry about it.

I use about 1 - 2GB per month of my 40GB so I have way more mobile data available than I need.

I think it's interesting that they increased the price for your plan. I live in Germany and I think the only thing that's constantly getting cheaper are these mobile data plans. They always upgrade the data but the price stays the same.

I suspect that it wildly varies based on user.

If you use video streaming from, say, YouTube and TikTok heavily, and you do so outside of WiFi networks, I bet that you can burn through a lot of data pretty quickly.

Another user could be sitting on Lemmy or whatever all day every day and just not use much data.