I often see reviews of how people pump out some mind-blowing amounts of traffic from their smartphones in a month, from 5 GB and more. In this connection, I wanted to ask what it is all about, and at the same time tell me how much traffic I need.
Hello! Today I decided to discuss the amount consumed from a smartphone and talk about my use cases. I now use a modest tariff from MTS 'Smart mini' with 2 GB of included traffic. This volume is enough for me for a month, I will say even more, as a rule, it takes me no more than 700 MB. Most often I use the Internet for instant messengers and social networks: reply to colleagues, read Twitter, comment on something on FB or write a letter. Less often I read something online, but more often it happens in the metro, where Wi-Fi is working now (I have a paid subscription, so I am not distracted by advertising). Watching YouTube videos or streaming music does not seem to me to be the use cases for which it is worth choosing a more expensive plan. By the way, some of the readers might think that there are relatively few included minutes on mini, but I also spend no more than a hundred of them per month.
In my experience, streaming video and music consume the most traffic, followed by automatic updates and auto-uploading of photos to the cloud. In my subjective opinion, all this can be done even if there is Wi-Fi, well, except that you will have to endure with the video, but updates and auto-uploading of photos will be fine with home. And streaming music services have long been able to download tracks offline. But maybe I'm wrong, and do you have any other use cases that eat up a lot of traffic? Let us know in the comments.