{"id":26805,"date":"2016-11-04T15:51:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T07:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=26805"},"modified":"2016-11-08T10:15:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T02:15:16","slug":"up-to-60gb-of-mobile-data-no-you-are-not-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/up-to-60gb-of-mobile-data-no-you-are-not-dreaming","title":{"rendered":"Up To 60GB Of Mobile Data? No, You Are Not Dreaming!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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No matter how much of a conscious mobile data user you are, you can\u2019t avoid your data being guzzled up, especially when every social media app and website bombards you with videos these days.<\/p>\n
This leaves many of us living in fear of data caps, call limits and exorbitant mobile bills.<\/p>\n
We live in a time where we are spoilt with good quality music and high definition video, which means your data gets gobbled up quicker than before, and before you know it, you are stuck with a slow connection until the next renewal, or fork out more money to buy additional data.<\/p>\n
The answer to this question depends on your mobile usage. Most plans today offer at least 3GB of mobile data allowance, and here\u2019s what you can do with that:<\/p>\n\n
Online activities<\/td> | Surf the web<\/td> | \nwhich uses 2.3MB on average<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Facebook<\/td> | On-demand video services | \n(i.e. Netflix)<\/td> \n standard definition, which uses 720MB on average<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n YouTube<\/td> | \nvideo, which uses 15MB on average<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n WhatsApp<\/td> | \nmessage, which uses 30KB on average<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Emails<\/td> | \nwithout attachments, which uses 30KB on average<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Google Maps<\/td> | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Chat on Skype<\/td> | \nuses 224MB on average<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Listen to music on Spotify<\/td> | \nat standard quality, which uses 3MB on average<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n* Usage is not accumulative. \nCalculation based on the mobile data calculator<\/a> by Confused.com.<\/font><\/i><\/span>\n\n <\/p>\n It\u2019s important to note that the above usage is not cumulative. What this means is for 3GB you can only stream 1,024 tracks on Spotify OR<\/strong> 4 episodes on Netflix. On average, that\u2019s only 33 songs on Spotify a day! That\u2019s hardly enough for Malaysians who like to listen to music while stuck in bad traffic, or stream their favourite shows while commuting.<\/p>\n If your usage is everything in the table above, you will likely need more than 3GB mobile data every month.<\/p>\n You might think putting away your phone in your pocket won\u2019t eat up your data, but it still does. That\u2019s because many apps (like email, weather and social network apps) have push notifications, where the apps update without you telling them to. That\u2019s going to use up lots of data in the background without you even realising it.<\/p>\n |