Poll: How much cell phone data do you use a month? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: How much cell phone data do you use a month?

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Post by byoung2 » Fri, Aug 19, 2011, 2:53 PM UTC

I have a Sprint 4G phone, and the usage history graph only shows 3G, which averaged 595MB/mo over the last 4 months. There is a note that says:

4G Data: We can't show your 4G usage here; however our 4G devices have unlimited access

I'll bet my usage is much, much higher, since I live in Los Angeles, and get full 4G coverage at home and at work, and I use it for video chat on Fring, watching HD video on YouTube, and tethering my laptop while at work.

Re: Poll: How much cell phone data do you use a month?

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Post by Silhouette » Fri, Aug 19, 2011, 3:38 PM UTC

jwarzech wrote: post #14

xd wrote: post #2

That's a big jump from 250MB to 2GB. You might want to add <500MB and <1GB .. In the UK at least, the "unlimited" cap is set at ~500MB.

I added 'Under 500MB' but I'm not sure if HN lets me reorder the poll options so its at the bottom. Seriously 500MB is considered unlimited in the UK? I think in the US a lot of 'unlimited' plans start throttling at 5GB.

> Seriously 500MB is considered unlimited in the UK?

Until the advertising standards people get hold of it, I expect. Rather like "Up to 8Mb/s" broadband, it's just asking to be taken down, but it seems likely that carriers will continue to brand obviously limited packages as "unlimited" until they're forced to be more honest.

Re: Poll: How much cell phone data do you use a month?

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Post by wa0 » Fri, Aug 19, 2011, 7:40 PM UTC

~800M

Re: Poll: How much cell phone data do you use a month?

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Post by ydant » Fri, Aug 19, 2011, 7:54 PM UTC

I average somewhere between 1.5-3GB without any Netflix streaming and fairly light tethering to my laptop. I do a lot of audio streaming via Rdio, but otherwise I'm really not sure where the data's being consumed.