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View Poll Results: Whats your Data usage per month?
2GB or less I hardly use it 35 62.50%
2-3GB I get email and occasionally surf 11 19.64%
3-5GB I love this interwebs thing!! 8 14.29%
5GB or more ATT frequently sends me threatening letters 2 3.57%
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Old 08-18-2009, 07:11 PM
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How much Data do you use a month?
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You might wanna change it to make the usage lower like this poll. Most people are gonna be lower than 2GB
Poll: Average monthly iPhone data usage - ehMac.ca
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Usually around 600MB.
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I use around 2G. Sometimes more. Sometimes less. I do not teather. I too think 2G is no small amount, because I get emails all day and surf a good bit night.
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How do u see how much data yo are using??
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@Brickman.. how many emails can you possibly get?? Emails wouldn't even contribute to a large number like 2GB.. and web surfing doesn't do that.. it just doesn't O_O

I only end up using about 200mb a month unless I have to tether my computer like I did today when I installed windows 7 and my internet wasnt working.. XD
Also one time my bandwidth ran out on my home internet and I didnt wanna get any extra charges so I tethered to finish (1GB of) my download of 30 Rock season 3.. great show!! 6GB of data comes in handy sometimes.. oh thank thee lord of Rogers.. XD

Anyway I agree the tiers should be lower in the poll :/ And the caption "I hardly use it" does not adequately describe someone who uses less than 2GB of data.. 95% of people use 500mb or less. :P
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@Brickman.. how many emails can you possibly get?? Emails wouldn't even contribute to a large number like 2GB.. and web surfing doesn't do that.. it just doesn't O_O
Honestly I do not check it that much. It is Unlimited so why bother. The last time I checked my iPhone said 1.6G used. Now I do more than just email. I surf a lot with my iPhone. My iPhone has turned into my Netbook. Infact it has replaced my Laptop on almost all my overnight trips. But yes a I get a lot of emails. I do not bother to count. The big thing about my emails is that they all have rather large attachments with them. They are not just pithy sentences. It is more like look at this pdf or long doc. Understand that I use my iPhone as a Business device. It is my main contact for all of my business. I use it just as much as I use my iMac if not more. It is also my main business phone#. The record for Voice minutes used this year for me is over 5,000 in a single month.

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Most are probably from 100-200MBs and I hardly consider that not using it.

I used about 170MBs last month, but that's because I also have a BlackBerry line which brings my total over 200MBs.
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P.S. I believe you all need to check your invoices for the true amount used.
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Honestly I do not check it that much. It is Unlimited so why bother. The last time I checked my iPhone said 1.6G used. Now I do more than just email. I surf a lot with my iPhone. My iPhone has turned into my Netbook. Infact it has replaced my Laptop on almost all my overnight trips. But yes a I get a lot of emails. I do not bother to count. The big thing about my emails is that they all have rather large attachments with them. They are not just pithy sentences. It is more like look at this pdf or long doc. Understand that I use my iPhone as a Business device. It is my main contact for all of my business. I use it just as much as I use my iMac if not more. It is also my main business phone#. The record for Voice minutes used this year for me is over 5,000 in a single month.

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That's all find and dandy but if you don't manually reset that bandwidth counter every month, that's not your monthly usage, that's your usage since you got the phone :P Most people use it a LOT when they first get it so that's understandable. XD
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