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How much data do you use in a month?
A new Nielsen report based on 60,000 mobile phone bills in the United States shows that a significant number of Smartphone owners are using less than 1 MB a month of data. Roger Entner of Neilsen said “The top 6% of smartphone users are consuming half of all data. More than a third of smartphone users have not yet signed up for a data plan.”
Even though the report is based in the States were curious how close the numbers are for us Canadians. Smartphone adoption is on the rise in Canada and the only recent stat we could find is when Rogers President Rob Bruce recently stated at the 2010 Canadian Telecom Summit that “Our research shows that average daily use on an iPhone is about 210 MB and more than 90% of iPhone customers use less than 500MB of data.”
How much data do you use in a month?
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I use about 150 to 200 meg per month with regular use.
More if I’m travelling as I’ll listen to the radio from home for an hour here and there.
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I use 250 to 300mb per month.
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I have an iPhone and I use about 2-3 GB per month. On my iPad I use about 4-4.5 GB per month. Although, I use a lot of data compared to my friends.
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anywhere from 250 to 400MB per month
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I use about 380MB permonth on my iPhobe. This is due to my availability of wifi. Last month I had over 1GB without my wifi.
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I use 2 to 3 gb a month. I spend all day in truck with only one radio station available. So I stream radio 8 to 10 hours a day. Checking twitter and browsing web on my down time
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1gig at the very least. Sometimes up to 3, depending on how bored I am! I’m jailbroken though, so I actually use more of the data plan I’m paying for!
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I use around 150 MBs a month, I do web browsing constantly throughout the day everyday, and use Google maps a lot.
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When I was using the HTC Dream I was using on average 400mb to 500mb. I’ve been using the X10 for the past two billing cycles and I am pushing 2gb – 2.5gb per month
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After checking my usage, from July 2009 to Jan 2010, I would regularly hit 4-5GB a month on my iPhone.
But my new job doesn’t get 3G, so I’m down to about 1.5-2GB a month.
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I use about 400MB a month but if I would have an unlimited plan I would use much more. I would use my phone for everything on the internet if I could.
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I use around 300mb’s a month… and I download my apps on WIFI or from my pc
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I use the internet everyday…. and i barely reach 3-4 mB…. I dont get it XD
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I use 450~500 mb per month on 3G with TELUS and use wi-fi at home. That’s on an iPhone 3GS
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I use probably 300-400Mb per month but that’s because I have a 500Mb monthly limit and use WiFi when I can so if I had unlimited or just a high limit I would probably use 1-2Gb per month
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I use about 300 MB/month. If I had an Android phone or iPhone, I could easily see it being over 500 MB/month.
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I Use atleast 3 gb a month to 4.
On a iPhone.
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12-15GB with my MIFI connected to ipod touch with other people connecting there Iphones to it also.
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i use less than 500 megs because that is my limit.. if i have more i would use more and search less for wifi hotspots
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I use between 30mb and 50 mb per months , I have a BB
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Less than 500mg on my iPhone3Gs with Rogers.
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200-400mb on my htc magic+ once i used 750 even though i have a 500mb plan and i didn’t get charged
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500mb with my blackberry and about 1-2gig with my iphone
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About 700-800 mb per month without tethering
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I use approximately 350 to 400mb per month on my Blackberry 9700.
Not sure what the compression ratio is on a Berry but I am sure my usage would be higher if I was using an iphone.
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I use close to 5GB every month. I don’t have internet access at home so I tether my MacBook to my Nexus One. I use NetSentry to monitor the consumption and ensure I don’t go over my limit.
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Less than 1 MB on a smartphone? That’s quite hard to believe. I use about 300 MB / month on my Android but also have home & office wifi.
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I was used to download 5Gb a month, but for now, as my unlimited plan is gonna change (CDMA to GSM) I plan to use 500Mb. That should be plenty, but as I’m gonna own a new Desire, will browsing be more appealing than my very adequate Diamond?…
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I use ~450MB every month just because I’m on 500MB plan. When you think about it, 450MB is not a lot, it’s 15MB/day… If there was an unlimited plan, I would use ~5GB / month because I will start tethering
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I’ll balance this out a bit,I don’t use any cellular data. I can’t afford to pay at least $50 a month for a phone.
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in May on my iPhone 3GS I used 526.6647 MB
I’m now using a HTC Legend as my main phone since June, and I used
Total In-plan: 1024.0000 MB
Total Pay-per-use: 304.3587 MB
So I’ve more than doubled my usage since switching to Android, and I’m going to have a big bill to deal with next month. Not fun. And I received no warning from Bell when I had reached my data limit, so this is all a surprise to me.
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i use about 500MB a month on my SE Xperia X10,i do abit of browsing and i occasionaly stream radio or t.v. shows from rogers on demand.
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I use on average 850MB of my 1GB cap on my iPhone 3GS. I went as high as 3GB one month and paid dearly.
If my plan allowed for more data, I would definitely take advantage of it.
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i stay just under my 500mb data plan but probably use about 3-4gb on wifi. probably have about 10 wifi locations saved into my iphone so i can almost always connect to it and conserve my very minimal data plan. wish i coulda got that old rogers plan for 6gb at 30 bucks instead of this crappy 500mb at 25
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I use about a gig a month. Sometimes more if I tether.
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Most folk who post here are high end data users (but at a price)
OTOH: many I have found (especially older people who use a Blackberry) are signed up to email only and Blackberry messenger plans, and have no access to the mobile web. Many others are signed up to social networking and text messaging only plans and also have no access to regular web data.
It’s sad in a way to see that many younger folk (who are the other side of the coin) are prepared to go hungery in order to feed their mobile web browsing habit. Let’s face it, web browsing on a mobile device (even if you throw all your annual salary at it) is not the most fulfilling experience in the world.
As for the major carriers, it’s a shame to see that they are no longer providing any plans at all (at a decent price) to cover the basics of voice, messaging, plus a liberal amount of long distance.
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Between 500MB and 1GB. Sometimes over a gig, but not by much.
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I’m so close to Wi-Fi @ work and home that I only end up using about 80mb per month of my 5GB. If I didn’t have Wi-Fi, I could honestly say that number would easily be about 1-3GB.
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Strangely on Fido I was hitting 150 constantly, and surpassed 300MB with tethering. But after switching to Bell, my usage dropped to less than 100MB, and only hit 250 this month with 2 days at a cottage and using mobile hotspot as internet for my netbook.
I was actually expecting my usage to go up after the switch since I moved to a Pre as opposed to the old Nokia E51 which supposedly is more data intensive.
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i have an old unlimted data plan on bell & each data session is capped out @ 900+ KBs (no matter how much i use) lol
i Browse alot.. Download like 10 to 20 MB (or more) Daily, Stream Radio & Video 3 to 4 hours hours a Day and watch alot of youtube reviews (High Quality via HTC sexy youtube player) As a guess i would over 6 GB But again i have no clue..
tha wife had a 500mb plan for one day and got upto 400 mbs We Swapped that to unlimited right away..
not sure what her use is but id say half of what i use or less,
more browsing, no streaming and little downloading …….
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I really wish I knew how much bandwidth I use!! I’m currently on Unlimited Mobile Browser with my Bell HTC Touch and stream my SlingBox. Bell will only show me capped sessions so I have no clue what I use!
I’d like to change my phone, but I don’t know what type of data plan I need and am scared of losing my unlimited data!!
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800mb to 1.2gb depending
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I have unlimited on a Bell HTC Touch so I have podcasts coming to my phone and that causes the monthly average to be 3 GB.
My wife has a new Legend and is not the gadget freak that I am at all and she is on pace for 200MB plus so I would say that these statistics are horribly broken or that people are terrified of using data due to the charges that used to be associated with data use.
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I have a Blackberry and use around 75 MB a month (plus WiFi at home). I don’t do any video or audio streaming because the experience is terrible on my 9700. I’m getting an iPhone 4 when they are released and I am definitely not sure if 500 MB will be enough.
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I use about 300MB on my Telus Blackberry and on my HTC G1 it varies a lot…. several GB depending on if I tether or not. Also like previously mentioned I use it to make wifi hotspots. Essentially it’s with Wind and don’t need to worry about these silly things
Always shout + Unlimited internet ftw.
I think another important thing is how fast is your connection??? Speeds tethering with my G1 absolutely murder when I use the berry to do it.
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Between 4-5 gigs a month on my N1 and that’s without tethering. TBH I don’t bother with WiFi most of the time so all my media updates such as podcasts are done over 3G.
I also have a Roger’s 6G $30 plan from way back so I want to use it.
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I use about 700mb on my iPhone 3GS a month. Google maps, web surfing, facebook daily.. 23mb a day average..
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I’m in the middle of 200MB to 400MB a month
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I get billed on average about 47 MB although I know for a fact I use at least 400 MB a month, live tv, video streaming, video downloading, push email, GPS, ebuddy, Internet Browsing etc, all over 3G since bells HSPA only supports 3G because of the lack of a GSM fallback support, Maybe Im just using a really old APN setting, I have no idea why they are so inaccurate with the billing of my data usage
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I use 4-5 gb a month with tethering and streaming music and youtube videos on my iPhone 3GS so lucky I have the 6 gb/30 data plan if I don’t tether I use 1 gb a month
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I use 2.5-3 GBs a month on my HTC Magic. I have the 6GB/$30 and have gone as high as 5.94GBs. My phone is my only Internet connection…
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I was on unlimited then went limited when I found I was only using 3 to 4 meg. I use it every day for twitter and a bit of browsing, do OTA for books, audio books and slingbox viewing. I don’t facebook or use push email.
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I barely hit 100 mb a month, and it’s on a BB 9700
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I use about 100 MB/M I’m always connected to Wifi and Edge sux for browsing. ROGERS I NEED 3G!!!
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I use about 10-30MB per month. Since I don’t watch youtube, and I use Wifi a lot, I mostly use my data for browsing, email, and navigation. So that ammount is more than enough.
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Just shy of 6GB last month on my Nexus One. Nothing major, just streaming radio, lots of RSS feeds, lots of browsing. Add in another 3 GB of wifi that was used in the same period only because I hit the limit of my plan. Oh yah, a few world cup games from cbcsports in flash.
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Well currently I use around 300 MB to 470 MB but with summer here and traveling season upon us I expect to upgrade my plan to 1GB. Even more maybe if I upgrade my Magic which I hate to something that shoots HD video.
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100 – 150 MB
On a TELUS Blackberry 9700.
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I use about 550-570Mb per month with no tethering. I have one of the coveted 6Gb/30$ from Rogers last year. I try to use that, but I just can’t…so far… wait til I upgrade my android to 2.1 and tethering is easier!!
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I just got a Bell MiFi device and within 4 days I have already consumed 1.2 GB! I work from home and thus primarily use this device during the work day (Microsoft Exchange, Office Communicator, and very little browsing). I have a laptop and iPad connected to it. I very infrequently visit any video streaming sites and have not downloaded any pictures or videos yet. I had the Skout application loaded on my iPad but deleted it (not sure how data intensive this app is). Every day on my iPad, I download my newspaper using PressReader (approx 20 – 60 MB / day). How do I find out why my consumption is so high?
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