Can any one who uses lots of data detail for what it is used? I never use more than 300 megs per month. Browsing the occasional web page is fun, but I've always gotten most of my big files off-line before I went somewhere. I don't do streaming media, so that's probably part of it, too.
I listen to a LOT of podcasts (110 days of them since November 2015). I think it's safe to say that most of them aren't optimized for streaming in the way that, say, most streaming music is. So if I want to listen to something that I didn't pre-download then I'm looking at some fairly hefty downloads. It averages to about 1 meg / minute with most of the shows I listen to being 30+ minutes each. No on-the-fly bandwidth saving measures. I'm out walking for an average of 2.5 hours a day, so if I downloaded all of that on my phone connection I'd be using 150 meg / day. Then there's youtube, which if you don't pay them $16/month doesn't let you download videos or stream audio only. So that ends up eating a bunch.
Back when I was on Fi I used ~2-3 gig/month. Switched to an unlimited plan on Tmobile (with throttling at 50g) and now I'm using 6-9 because I don't have to worry about it.
Fi was the second hardest service from Google to give up though, because their service is just better than competitors. Only Tmobile can remotely compare. But their customer service is... Google. I might have even stayed, but I switched to iPhone and Fi only gives half baked token support for iPhone.
That makes sense. I listen to lots of podcasts as well, and I've gotten stuck once or twice with something still downloading and waiting to walk out the door.
I have Android Auto in my car and virtually all of the data usage is Music. I think it would be really nice if they would try to pre-load music that I'm likely yo enjoy when the phone is connected to my home wifi network, instead of always streaming over mobile. The other day I drove for 2.5 hours and it used 300MB of data. I wasn't even listening to music the whole way.
It takes some planning ahead, but I use a podcast app that automatically downloads episodes when I'm on Wi-Fi and I explicitly download a few playlists on Spotify.
I use google maps a lot. When I walk around, when I drive (1hour commute/day). Also use spotify (but most of the time offline-saved tracks). Twitter/internet browsing in waiting rooms. I consume on average 3 to 4 gigs a month.
Automatic uploads of photos and videos, some youtube music, some streaming, some hotspotting. Didnt realize but washington post seem to be downloading a lot too.
I am on corporate phone plan, and probably more than half of my data is work related videos and photos (robotics, people love videos lol).
Can any one who uses lots of data detail for what it is used? I never use more than 300 megs per month. Browsing the occasional web page is fun, but I've always gotten most of my big files off-line before I went somewhere. I don't do streaming media, so that's probably part of it, too.