Internet Usage on Smartphones
Are you aware of the data usage on your SmartPhone?
We are frequently approached by our valued customers complaining about their mobile internet usage despite barely using any data. To investigate the complaint, when we inquired about their handset type, most of the time we had been told that they were using SMARTPHONES (IPhone, HTC, Samasung and other android devices)
So here is the simple fact:
Smartphones can use up mobile internet without you even realising it. There are application
which can still do a fair amount of downloading when they’re not open e.g. Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail’s scheduled synchronization for new emails, Weather Updates, Application Updates, Social Networking applications’ updates etc. In short, you could easily end up using mobile internet & getting charged for it without even knowing it, regardless of whether you’re on Android or iPhone. Since it’s very expensive to use mobile internet over Base Rate when you are not subscribed to any mobile internet bundle, therefore it is really important you track how much data you’ve consumed while using different applications & web-browsing
which can still do a fair amount of downloading when they’re not open e.g. Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail’s scheduled synchronization for new emails, Weather Updates, Application Updates, Social Networking applications’ updates etc. In short, you could easily end up using mobile internet & getting charged for it without even knowing it, regardless of whether you’re on Android or iPhone. Since it’s very expensive to use mobile internet over Base Rate when you are not subscribed to any mobile internet bundle, therefore it is really important you track how much data you’ve consumed while using different applications & web-browsing
Below are some tips with the help of which you can control your mobile internet usage:
The below table will facilitate data users to gauge the average data consumption against the listed services.
| Service | Usage | Average Data Size |
| TV | Watching 15 mins of one episode of a series | 45MB |
| You Tube | Music Video – 4 mins | 11MB |
| Radio App (streaming) | 10 mins | 15MB |
| 15 mins with no video streaming | 5MB | |
| 100 emails sent/received with no attachement | 2.5MB | |
| Email with photo or doc attachment | 10 email sent/received containing attachement | 18MB |
| Web browsing (standard web pages e.g. mostly text) | 50 web pages / 30mins | 10MB / 13MB |
| Google Maps | 10 mins | 6MB |
| Music | 1 music track | 5MB |
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