India has the highest data usage per smartphone

Post by LyndsySimon » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 7:24 PM UTC

dman wrote: post #91

LyndsySimon wrote: post #85

Ugh. I live in Arkansas, and my AT&T bill this month is $410. Granted, about $150 of that are payment plans for devices, but still. The base rate plan is $110, and there's a $20-30 per line fee for four separate lines. I have an iPad Pro 11" LTE and an iPhone X, my wife has an S10+, and I handed down my 6th Gen iPad LTE to my 10-year-old. It's a lot more than "needed", and our aggregate data usage is 30+ GB/month, bu…

Why dont you use tethering and use the connection from your phone on your ipad?

It drains the battery, for one thing. For another, it's one extra additional step that I have to go through to get online on the iPad, and the lack of friction to doing things online that are more substantial than is comfortable on a phone is the primary purpose of the device.

Finally, I very often tether my MBP to my iPad, because the iPad's battery lasts much longer. If my phone battery is low I pretty much need to charge it so I can get calls from family. If my iPad's battery dies I'm merely inconvenienced for a while.

Post by LyndsySimon » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 7:27 PM UTC

treve wrote: post #134

LyndsySimon wrote: post #85

Ugh. I live in Arkansas, and my AT&T bill this month is $410. Granted, about $150 of that are payment plans for devices, but still. The base rate plan is $110, and there's a $20-30 per line fee for four separate lines. I have an iPad Pro 11" LTE and an iPhone X, my wife has an S10+, and I handed down my 6th Gen iPad LTE to my 10-year-old. It's a lot more than "needed", and our aggregate data usage is 30+ GB/month, bu…

I live in Toronto, but managed to get an US AT&T plan because prices are so much better. I pay $30 USD for 8GB that carries over month-to-month. I outright bought my Pixel 2 though, second hand. Bit lower than your $410, but it sounds like you have multiple plans, always buying very high-end new hardware. There's a point where you have to accept that this is an expensive hobby or luxury item. You chose to get all the…

> There's a point where you have to accept that this is an expensive hobby or luxury item. You chose to get all these devices.

Oh, no doubt. I'm not really complaining about the price I'm paying for the devices themselves; I included that specifically so it wouldn't be taken as if the entire bill was due to the data I consume.

> always buying very high-end new hardware

That's a pretty recent thing for me. The first new flagship phone I ever bought was an S7 Edge. I liked it enough that it made sense for me to upgrade to the iPhone X when it died. The 6th Gen iPad was an impulse purchase, but one that turned out to be a much more practical thing than I expected. Then I upgraded and passed it down to my daughter - she's homeschooled, and can access her online lessons from wherever we happen to be on it, which is very handy.

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