Here are some of the ways our phones use data: You have to know that and go into your settings to throttle it. On top of that, phones download a lot of data in the background. Use Instagram for an hour or so (which you’d do if you’re an online marketer) and you can easily use a whole gig! To keep you up-to-date on everything going on in your crazy life, phones download a sometimes crazy amount of data. However, it’s not easy to cap data use! Phones and computers are incredibly complicated these days. So it makes sense to monitor and cap your data use. In developed countries like Australia, your data speeds will be throttled once you reach a certain amount, unless you’re paying a LOT for your connection. The signal/speed means we have to throttle data usage, so our apps can breathe, and browsing websites is tolerable.Įven apart from the challenges of less-developed countries, in most parts of the world (everywhere?) data is capped. Secondly, signal strength and data speeds aren’t great. In some parts of the world you can recharge online, but it’s not reliable or necessarily safe to use your credit card with an untrusted website. We usually need to get cash out first (and ATMs aren’t that abundant in rural areas). It’s easy to use several gigs a day even if you’re not downloading movies and TV shows - a luxury we have to mostly forego (or do just occasionally, and in low quality).įirstly, apart from the embarrassment of needing to swim in data like Scrooge McDuck swam through his gold coins, it’s slightly annoying going and buying credits. Why throttle your data (both consumption and speed)Įven with this extravagant data purchasing, we have to be conservative in what we use.
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