Poll - iPhone Monthly Data Usage

[sndcj1]

Now that everyone is (re)introducing unlimited plans, I was just wondering how many people actually benefit from that much data usage.


P.S. If you don't know your data usage, you can get your current monthly data by CALLING *DATA# (*3282#) on your phone.

 

[iMaconApple]

i stream a lot of music/video..mostly pandora..i have a car deck that plugs to my iphone 4 and i use that as my radio/everything else..

data is my everything..my roll over mins are about 1000+ and i dont pay for text...if there was a ipod touch with 3G/4G 30$ unlimited data i will be ok with that

 

[shakeman0]

I stay under 200MB. I don't really watch my data use and am on the web all the time, but I don't stream video or music while on the go.

 

[Zepaw]

I love me some Pandora and podcast downloading. I break 2GB without trying.

 

[cheesemonster24]

When Netflix was released for the iPhone, my data usage went from about 400mb to nearly 4gb a month.

 

[Travisimo]

I'm trying to estimate my data usage if I were to go back to AT&T with the 2GB plan. I am on WIFI at home, but use 3G at work, in the car, and when traveling. Specifically, I surf the web a great deal, which I know doesn't use a lot of data. But I do stream audio from Pandora and Mog for about 1-2 hours per day. Do you guys think I'd be okay with the 2GB plan?

 

[Zepaw]

I'm trying to estimate my data usage if I were to go back to AT&T with the 2GB plan. I am on WIFI at home, but use 3G at work, in the car, and when traveling. Specifically, I surf the web a great deal, which I know doesn't use a lot of data. But I do stream audio from Pandora and Mog for about 1-2 hours per day. Do you guys think I'd be okay with the 2GB plan?

Odds are you would be okay. Probably best to find somewhere how much data a couple hours of Pandora would add up to.

 

[sndcj1]

I'm trying to estimate my data usage if I were to go back to AT&T with the 2GB plan. I am on WIFI at home, but use 3G at work, in the car, and when traveling. Specifically, I surf the web a great deal, which I know doesn't use a lot of data. But I do stream audio from Pandora and Mog for about 1-2 hours per day. Do you guys think I'd be okay with the 2GB plan?

From http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/06/pandora-iphone.html
"Pop & Hiss conducted a test run of an hour of continuous music streaming on the default sound-quality setting with Pandora on the iPhone. (Flipping on high-quality streaming doesn't make a huge difference in bandwidth consumption.) It weighed in at just under 16 megabytes."

So, 16(per hour)*2(hours per day)*30(days per month)= less than a gig, so you "should" be fine.

 

[Travisimo]

From http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/06/pandora-iphone.html
"Pop & Hiss conducted a test run of an hour of continuous music streaming on the default sound-quality setting with Pandora on the iPhone. (Flipping on high-quality streaming doesn't make a huge difference in bandwidth consumption.) It weighed in at just under 16 megabytes."

So, 16(per hour)*2(hours per day)*30(days per month)= less than a gig, so you "should" be fine.

Thanks! I guess at worst case and I did go over, I pay another $10 for an additional gig and it's still only $5 more than if I was on Unlimited. I wish AT&T would give you blocks of 2gb for $10 instead of 1gb. I mean, the whole point of having the tiered caps was to deter those that are abusing their unlimited data with 10+gb/mo.

Actually, this would be much better IMO:

$25/mo for 2gb (should be lower, but I know they think 98% of users never use more than this)

$35/mo for 5gb (5gb is still not going to take down their network and they are getting another $10/mo out of you)

I'm hoping that the Verizon iPhone does more than just entice AT&T to give unlimited back to previous subscribers who had it. I'm hoping it will force AT&T to re-think their tiered plans altogether.