How much phone data do you use?

Newbie_John

I've been with Sky for the past 2 years with their free 100MB allowance, and it was fine 95% of time for WhatsApp and Google Maps while driving.
WiFi at home, WiFi at work, there's a lot of WiFi in many restaurants etc. and if I didn't have anything I enjoyed mobile free time while outside.
As they increased the price I moved to Lebara 3GB and that's too much, old habits remained.

PHK

I use about 90Gb a month (get 125Gb for £18). 

I enjoy listening to music and podcasts while out, walking, or exercising. I don't watch many videos. 

That amount means I don't have to worry about data 

facade

According to my 'phone, I have used a whopping 4.63 MB this month, and I have 3 days left to use the rest of my 2GB.

I never play on my 'phone when I am outside the house.

victor2

GDB2222 said:

I have recently bought a pay monthly sim for my phone that has 12 gb of data per month. After 4 days use, I have only used 130 mb.  We have Wi-Fi at home, so the phone data is only used when out.

I haven’t yet watched any films. If I did would that push up the data used a lot?

Where would you be watching a film without WiFi? Camping in a field perhaps?

I have a PAYG SIM and for £5 I get 30 days unlimited calls and text, plus 3GB of data. I only use Google maps and WhatsApp when away from WiFi, so will only get through a few hundred MB in a month. I do tend to buy such a bundle every month as calls are expensive otherwise.

Mobile data is always on, so it will use it whenever WiFi is not available.

Desmond_Hume

According to O2 I have averaged 7.29Gb per month over the last year. I pay for 30Gb. It costs me a dizzying £8 per month for that. I could pay less to get less but, I don’t feel it’s worth it/as good value (£/Gb) to go lower. Gets me EU roaming as well, which is a rare commodity these days. 

EnPointe

typical month  i'll use about 20 - 30 GB , however i tend to stream  music in the car,  do use mapping and nav quite a bit  and have Work  Email and Reference  apps on  my personal device (we are semi BYOD  in that  less secure work  stuff like email / reference texts / rostering  we can have on  own device but  client  identifiable is  on the works devices only) . if i go away likely to use more  rather than pay for wifi  where i;m staying as i have more in my package 

grrrrrrrrrowl

I'm like you in that with WiFi I hardly use any data, but I like having it there incase my internet connection ever goes down and I have to tether for a few hours (hopefully not longer than that!)

Tucosalamanca

Streaming video will use around 1gb an hour.

I generally use less than 10gb a month when at home or working (as connected to wifi most of the time).
But when travelling, I can easily use 80-100gb a month, particularly if using the laptop (which uses data far faster than a handheld device). 

Albermarle

pseudodox said:

I pay £5 per month for 4GB - have never in over 2 years ever used much more than 1GB, but I got the 4GB deal for LESS than 2GB deal.  Go figure!  Only ever use data when out & about to check emails, WhatsApp, maps for hiking routes & occasional geocaching or tourism info & to avoid logging into local open WiFi.  

I am the same . I pay £6 for 5GB but have never used more than 1GB. I do use it away from home but What's app, Apple Maps. Google etc does not use much data. Even streaming music, sport replays, short You Tube videos do not use that much, as long as you do not go for High definition sound/visual, or have them on a long time.

Emily_Joy

While in UK, I use less than 50Mb per month. When I am in China, it's a good bit more than that because there public (and not public) wifi is poor and unreliable, so I am using mobile data, and I also need it for payments and translation. When I am on the Continent, I tend to use mobile data more. But I figured out that 3 hours on Zoom eats less than 300MB! As I use only Open Street Maps for navigation (offline, downloaded to my phone), I have never used more than 3GB per month...