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How much data do you use? (concerned about Verizon's tiered pricing)

nguyen18

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I am eligible for an upgrade mid-April and decided to migrate from a multi-media phone to a smartphone! Luckily for Verizon Wireless customers like myself, 4G phones are coming out and the phones are looking awesome. Unluckily, however; is that fact that the $30 unlimited data plans will soon be dismissed. I know that the tiered pricing plans have not been officially announced, but my concern is the amount of data usage that I'd might be using. As I have mentioned, I have no prior experience with smartphones, and I do not know the average amount of data is used to load a webpage or run certain applications. For those of you who track the amount of data that you consume, could you please let me know how much data you consume on average? Also, what do you use your phone for?
 
I use about 850MB per month. I do some web browsing, but not a lot. I have many news feeds updating, I have a weather app updating, I have a sports app updating whenever one of 4 teams has a game, I play a couple of "free" games, which means I have the ads updating during the game play, I sync my calendar on the phone with my work computer using google, I receive a half dozen emails on gmail per day, I use Soundhound every now and then, I use wifi at home ...
 
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lets see to give a basic summary of my useage......Im about halfway through my billing cycle (the 19th of the month)

in this cycle I have probably only visited 40 or so websites on the phone itself
(see further web browsing down the list)

I have streamed radio for about 15 hours

I have d/l about 10 apps from the market

I d/l a full movie (in MP4 format)

lightning struck my house on Monday and fried my ISP radio, my router, and the NICs in all my computers (as well as some unrelated items such as 2 TVs, etc) so I have been tethered nonstop to my phone since then......

while tethered (3 days) I have probably visited some 300 websites (guestimate based on perusing through these forums several times a day, checking various news sites several times a day, email checks, etc)

I have also spent about 8 hours playing an online PC mmorpg game while tethered (although theres actually very little traffic in most games)

so Ive used my service in an above average capacity this cycle so far and I just checked my useage........ its about 660Mb

but you cant really do a direct comparison from 1 user to the next because everyones habits and useage is going to be different

if you want to guestimate your own useage then you have to sit down and think about exactly what you personally will be doing

for instance.... web browsing uses very little traffic to speak of....... your average website visit is probably going to be less than 1Mb

however streaming video uses a lot of traffic.......so if youre going to be spending 4 hours a day on youtube then youre going to use a lot of data

if you plan to d/l a lot of movies expect to use a lot of data

if youre simply going to use your phone for surfing and email, facebook and twitter, and the occasional splurge of some streaming then youre probably going to average a lot less than 1GB
 
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Verizon gives 150 for 15.if you break that limit then they charge you another 15 for 300 total. They're gonna take in so much money from tiered p plans...

Well from what it looks like to me is that most people are generally under 2GB of data in a month, even through heavy use. At & t runs a $25/2GB cap per month, so it might turn out to be 5 dollars cheaper? I still don't know what's going to happen because verizon is not only going to allow customers to choose how much data they want to consume, but also the bandwidth in which they want you want to consume it in.
 
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