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[ChouGoku]

August 2013 I got an iphone 4s, I moved from my first smartphone the Evo 4g. I got the Evo in 2011 and I've had the same plan with Sprint. 450 landline mins, unlimited text, unlimited data with no throttle, unlimited cell mins. I wasnt a smartphone guy in 2011,I was more used to using a laptop and my Android had so many problems so I barely used it, the iphone was a better phone but I didnt know that sprint was the only 4s without 4g for some reason. So I lived that 3g life until February when my iphone could not hold a charge for more than 2 hours probably due to 3rd party chargers.
So in February I get a Galaxy 6 edge+, mainly for VR but the real game changer is how much I use my phone now. I feel like a borderline phone addict. I am doing something with my phone a lot now days, either watching or listening to something, snapchat, downloading games, anything. 4g LTE is pretty fast and it feels like having super extended wifi in most places. I hear my friends talk about watching their data which caps at like 15gb, I think, that has to be a terrible existence while I have been using 60-80gb since February. I feel like having data caps or throttling must feel like such an incomplete use of a smartphone.

TLDR; nice phone+unlimited data is amazing

 

[Redd]

I don't have data caps. They can take my minutes because I never use them but stay away from my data.

 

[demosthenes]

I just don't use a ton of data? House has wifi, work has wifi, etc.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

There isn't that much data I need on my phone. My prepaid phone plan allows for 3GB data, which is plenty.

When I'm away from my home, I'm really just checking Twitter from time to time. When I'm at home and I'm not browsing on my PC, then I still have my home's wifi to use.

 

[Darth Karja]

I use less then 1gb, and I am always on my phone. I just use wifi wherever I go. Home, work, the gym.

 

[Salty Shogun]

I have a cap, but never ever go over like 3 GBs in a month. All of my music and podcasts are downloaded, I'm either at work or at home which both have wifi for me to use, and all I use data for is Twitter or something similar. I once used way more data than expected watching a few youtube videos so that stopped. It's really no struggle for me.

 

[Delicious Waffles]

Everywhere I go has wifi. I don't even use close to a gig a month and I have only 2 GB on my plan.

 

[Norris1020]

My wife and I share 2 GB's of data which we rarely ever come close to because we have wifi at home and work. It just really started bothering me now since my daughter started kindergarten a few weeks ago and she's a car rider, I have to get there an hour before dismissal to get a decent spot and it's made me think how nice it would be if I could pull out my phone and browse or watch something while I waited rather than stuck listening to sports radio or Rush Limbaugh.

 

[George Washington]

Always had unlimited data. I use 35GB per month minimum due to streaming a lot of 1080p content. Honestly couldn't imagine having a data cap in my case.

Edit: Although if the places I frequently visit had wifi that I could use, then I may reconsider.

 

[eddie4]

Wifi, at home, wifi at work, wifi at my parents, wifi at my grandparents, wifi at friends. I don't utilize much data on my phone anyways, but it's not hard to find wifi these days.

 

[Schwarzbier]

Good wifi?

I'm not sure how people manage either. I use anywhere between 10-18 gigs a month, depending on what's going on, but getting along with much less would be difficult. I don't watch movies on it, switch the wifi on when I'm home, and mostly just stream music for my job, listen to podcasts, and do regular internet stuff.

 

[xxracerxx]

No cap on my end.

 

[LosDaddie]

yeah
That's why I stick with Sprint

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

My wife and I share 2 GB's of data which we rarely ever come close to because we have wifi at home and work. It just really started bothering me now since my daughter started kindergarten a few weeks ago and she's a car rider, I have to get there an hour before dismissal to get a decent spot and it's made me think how nice it would be if I could pull out my phone and browse or watch something while I waited rather than stuck listening to sports radio or Rush Limbaugh.

Make your kid walk farther

 

[Electric Eye]

No data caps here, fuck that. Unlimited data on our mobiles and Cable internet. I once had a cap on my ATT phone plan and after the first time I went over it and they charged me up the ass I dropped them like a stone I even paid the early termination fee which if you think about the amount of times you go over or will go over is probably cheaper. I have no patience playing games with companies and their asinine plans.

 

[Schwarzbier]

yeah
That's why I stick with Sprint

The second Verizon decides to drop my unlimited I'm there. Their coverage is quite good around here apparently (NJ), I just worry a little bit about how it is in Vermont, especially the Northern Part where no cell coverage is all that great.

 

[Redd]

It's frowned upon to use wifi at my job. Without my unlimited plan I would have to actually make small talk with my coworkers. They're dicks.

 

[Hugstable]

On 6gb a month plan with Verizon for 3 people and we manage each month. I average around maybe 2-4 gb of use a month, I browse mobile gaf with no avatars, images or anything. Also try to avoid youtube as much as I possibly can while on the mobile, and with spotify I always use the lower quality. I just don't try to overuse when I'm using my data and try to save my browsing and stuff for when I'm at home on my Wifi. The other 2 phones maybe average 1-2gb of use a month due to spotify, no web browsing on those.

 

[Moonkid]

New Zealander here, living with 500MB per month. That's right, 500MB.

 

[xxracerxx]

Make your kid walk farther

Or park and walk to the school.

 

[ChouGoku]

I have a cap, but never ever go over like 3 GBs in a month. All of my music and podcasts are downloaded, I'm either at work or at home which both have wifi for me to use, and all I use data for is Twitter or something similar. I once used way more data than expected watching a few youtube videos so that stopped. It's really no struggle for me.

I just dont like doing the wifi hunt as much. I really only use wifi at home, work, and where I have terrible service. I travel for work so I'm not really in the same places all the time to have saved wifi. Or some places, like the hotel I'm staying at now, has terrible wifi but it doesn't hold me back.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

On mobile? I only use less than a quarter of a gig in data a month. 99% my mobile traffic is through wifi. So it's rather easy to live with a cap.

 

[MrCunningham]

Oh god, I made the mistake of changing my ISP from Shaw cable to Telus (Canadian providers). At the time, I thought it was a good idea, but then I got my bill and found out about the overcharges on data caps. Fuck. 80GB's data cap, with this made up bullshit called "bucket overflows". Complete garbage.

I was still capped with Shaw, but it was at 300GB per month and they would not overcharge if I went over that cap. Instead they would just cripple my internet speeds for a short period of time. Which wasn't so bad all things considering.

 

[Toki767]

I don't stream video or music so my data cap doesn't really bother me other than the principle of it.

 

[Norris1020]

Or park and walk to the school.

I sure would, but they won't let you take your kid if you walk up there, have to pull up in the car and the school is situated in a location that if you're not early you're stuck trying to turn left off a busy highway.

 

[Matticers]

Wifi is the answer. And not using my phone that much when at work so I'm not going to use much data while doing that anyway. It's rare that I'll want to use it for something that uses a lot of data when I'm out somewhere that doesn't have wifi.

I've only come close to going over 2GB once and that's because I'd get bored during lunch breaks at work so I'd start streaming baseball games.

 

[Currygan]

New Zealander here, living with 500MB per month. That's right, 500MB.

thanks for this post. See you again in 29 days mate

 

[clav]

New Zealander here, living with 500MB per month. That's right, 500MB.

How much does cell phone service cost over there?

 

[ChouGoku]

New Zealander here, living with 500MB per month. That's right, 500MB.

😢 damn, my condolences.

 

[xxracerxx]

I sure would, but they won't let you take your kid if you walk up there, have to pull up in the car and the school is situated in a location that if you're not early you're stuck trying to turn left off a busy highway.

You have to be in a car? That seems crazy.

 

[Zippedpinhead]

Data caps suck. I can't imagine how expensive my bill would be if I had them.

Wifi at home sure, but I don't want work monitoring my phone traffic its just not their business.

 

[Forerunner]

I don't stream video or music so my data cap doesn't really bother me other than the principle of it.

Pretty much this and I also avoid any huge game downloads. Playing the games isn't a big deal since that hardly uses any data.

My cap is at 40 GB, it was 100 GB, but I decided to cut down to save some money.

 

[WaffleTaco]

Because it's extremely easy if you have wifi at home. Are you not using wifi at home?

Also OP the reason there are caps and throttling is because of people like you.

 

[jb1234]

I had a 250 MB cap for quite a while and it suuuuuuuuuucked. Switched to T-Mobile, have 3 gigs now and am still paying less than what I did for Verizon's crappy plan.

 

[Surge]

I'm just really careful when I have to use my data.

Work has wifi that they let us use and I have it at home so I never come close to going over my limit.

 

[Norris1020]

You have to be in a car? That seems crazy.

Yeah man, you have to pull up to the curb and give them a printed paper they provided with the kids name and teacher and they go inside to retrieve the children and bring them to the cars...I guess it's just the way it is nowadays, when I was in school we just used to bust out the door and run to our car haha. I'd let her ride the bus but she's the kind of kid that can't find her way out of a wet paper bag, so I sit in my 90 degree hell day after day listening to Rush or whatever. I was hoping they'd have some dopey unlocked wifi there but no luck.

 

[Xe4]

As others said, WiFi. I got a 1 GB cap between me and my mom and I've never surpassed it. Just learn to cpnserve, and turn off 4G when you're not using it.

 

[Allforce]

You have to be in a car? That seems crazy.

That's how my kids school is too, you gotta line up in two lanes and there's like a traffic lady who waves cars up to the entrance like 10 at a time. You got a sign in your car with your kids name and a lady radios into the school for your kid and what lane you're in. Then their teacher walks them out (usually like multiple kids at once)

I think they do it because it'd be a logistical nightmare of parking, tons of adults filing in and out of an already busy school, etc. You can only get a sign for your car as a parent or other pre-designated person who is allowed to pick up your kid (grandma, friend, etc).

Also, the school has wifi so no data cap for me while I sit in my ride waiting in line each day.

 

[hamchan]

Australia. We don't have unlimited data on any phone yet. I have a 10gb limit with data free Spotify and google music streaming, and an option to pay $10 to gain data free Netfliz streaming. Seems to be enough for me right now.

My home broadband is unlimited though. I hear some American ISPs like Comcast went backwards and actually added data caps? Because that sounds nightmarish to me.

 

[Media]

I just had to get my kids phones. No dumb phones anymore, so I got them cheap smart ones with a family data pack.

They each used 2 gig in YouTube in a week 😭

So we turned off their mobile data and are figuring out how to cap them. They make it hard because they want you to go over your cap. Urgh.

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

How much does cell phone service cost over there?

2 sheep a month

 

[Chris R]

It sucks

My internet is currently crusing along at 50kbps since we used the 150GB allowed this month. Better slow internet than paying a ton of money in overages though so I guess we got that going for us?

 

[Moonkid]

How much does cell phone service cost over there?

The cheapest, most common monthly pre-paid plan across our three main providers is $13.75 USD a month/12.27 euros which I use. On my current provider, the cheapest monthly plan at 28USD will give you a gig. There are more expensive plans but they don't get to 20 or even 15 gigs.

 

[slick7rick]

I typically use about 50-70 GB in a month on T-Mobile. It's really nice not to have to worry about overages and fees. $70 for unlimited everything (no caps or throttling).

 

[sleverfunk]

have a 10gb per month data. im paranoid that i might exceed the data limit and have overages.

 

[User 479360]

I have 500mb and, though I hate the low limit, I've never gone over it. I have a limit and a warning set, so that I know what I've used and can turn the data off if need be.

I'm mostly a homebody, so I don't need a lot of data, but I'd ideally like a gig more.

 

[Redd]

I typically use about 50-70 GB in a month on T-Mobile. It's really nice not to have to worry about overages and fees. $70 for unlimited everything (no caps or throttling).

Whoa that's more than 3 times the data I use on average.

 

[Slick Butter]

I typically use about 50-70 GB in a month on T-Mobile.

the fuck

how? stream a ton of full HD feature length films to your phone away from wifi?

 

[GreatestHits]

I live in the boonies and use only mobile data. I want to strangle the CEO @ Verizon

 

[Zeus Molecules]

between 14-10 days a month I am miserable the second I am away from Wi-Fi