They exist for a reason, some ppl really need it. Maybe they don't have WiFi at home or maybe they work driving... but realistically, if you have WiFi at home and your work/study place offers WiFi, you do not need unlimited. You probably would be fine with 30gb if you enjoy watching movies on the bus home. And if you try to tell me how unsafe public hotspots are, I will tell you to put a tinfoil hat and a hazmat suit bc might as well protect from any danger ever
@TeclaTorta There are a few problems with public wifi, not least of which is the ease of sniffing your data and stealing info or log ins that way. Beyond that, many employers have a clause in their digital access policies that allows them to access anything you've accessed on their network or devices. I prefer heavily not to be subject to that if possible. Necessity is a factor though.
For my son it was RUclips. He usually used up my 40gb in two days. Even when I told him not to. I had to change the WiFi password and give him his own contract. So he could learn what it means to reach the limit.
You can see how much you use in a month in your device settings. If that number never changes much from 1 month to the next like mine, that's the plan you buy.
1. Don't ever use free wifi 2. The cap on unlimited data is decided by the company, not all have them, and the reduced speed might not even be noticable 3. They made this video based off of 1 study that was done 3 years ago
Free WiFi is safer than ppl make it out to be. As long as u don't: Connect to *any* open WiFi. Double check the name. Don't use bank stuff. You will survive to tell the tale 😂 chances are there's no hacker in that mcdonalds looking for your internet traffic any more than there's in that sketchy website u use weekly
Public wi-fi is fine (even online banking or such) as long as you ensure the website is secure. These days browsers will bring up confirmation if it isn't, or even just outright deny access to the site altogether. Another alternative is to use a VPN. With a [n encrypted] VPN it won't even matter whether or not you encounter a rare/unlikely unsecured website. Lastly, between how rare it's always been and how modern security has made these options less viable, random public wi-fi is 99.99% safe even if you're a complete idiot and don't don't check for secured website connection. People are far more likely to be victim to phishing attacks or malware or targetted social engineering attacks, which have nothing to do with the wi-fi.
@@user-or4rk3mc9p if the wifi is compromised in an attack like a rogue network or rogue captive portal it most definitely is not safe to use bank apps. TLS and encrypted tunnels are only as secure as both endpoints. This applies to VPNs as well.
@@user-or4rk3mc9p the problem is, most users are not going to be smart enough to be vigilant with a man in the middle attack such as redirecting to a phishing site with a bank login and certificate for a very similar looking website to the site you are trying to go to, or just straight up convincing the user to install it's CA certificate which will allow them to use THEIR encryption certificate to view all of your traffic in an encryption they can read before forwarding to the real site. It will show as a lock that it's encrypted, but doesn't mean it's encrypted to the site you are accessing. Heck, some malicious wifi before was devious enough to capture automatic check for update traffic of commonly used applications, and spoof an "update available" for them to download, which would be malware. Finally on top of that, there is always the possibility of unknown zero day exploits that your PC connecting to the network allows for the attacker to run against your computer. All these are not always the most common, but yeah, there is a lot more than just unencrypted traffic being potentially sniffed.
I on average use 30 to 40 gigs a month. Unlimited is just the least expensive option for me. Wifi is only around everywhere in bigger cities. Even medium sized cities don't really have tons of wifi hotspots. Not to mention the ridiculous security risk public wifi presents.
Even though I use way more gigs than the average person in a month, it's because of this reason. The only time I have reason to ask for the WiFi of a restaurant or something is if I'll be there for a long time, plus most work places where I live won't give WiFi access to anything other than authorised devices (company laptops, computers, work phones, ect.) And as a result if you use a personal device, you don't really have the option to use WiFi networks.
I pay 70 a month and use 75gb but don’t have home internet. I’d say a combined phone and internet bill of 70 (about 1% of takehome pay) is a good deal.
This is why I have a data plan that allows me to change my limits every month (and I can change in the middle of the month). After a while, you know how much data you actually use. When vacation rolls around, I change the plan to one that's $2 more expensive per month but gives me twice as much data, just for that month, and then I drop down to the lower limit again the next month.
Yeah the Average is 12 a month. I routinely hit the speed slowdown of 50 gigs monthly. I pay for unlimited to avoid slowing my PC at any point ever because my phone did something.
Why pay for the extra gas that you don't need? First, an unlimited plan is not really unlimited. Second, if you use 12GB on average, getting a 20GB plan will be more than enough.
@@Screwycummings it is unlimited, slow is still unlimited. So as explaining in the first comment, I’m not paying for extra gas, I’m paying to NEVER run out.
@@amirmirzaei3940 If you ever need to download anything you will most likely need unlimited. Or if you watch videos, or other things. I just use an MVNO (Mint, Visible, etc) and get cheap but "lower priority" service and it's never been an issue.
Thanks to Xavier Niel and Free Mobile. You get plenty of roaming data when you're traveling. France is much better than the US for mobile phone plans and home Internet.
@@JohnPMiller Yes clearly, they "broke" the market with really aggressive prices and competitive plans. I have more data abroad than my local friends ! Completely mindblowing.
I pay for 15 GB and generally use 8-12 a month. I think 12 was when we were traveling out of state and I might play music or an audiobook on a 5-9 hour car ride (depending on where we were going).
I actually use at least 100GB a month because I don't have wifi everywhere lol. I only have wifi 2 days a week so the other 5 are entirely on the mobile data.
Thank God my ISP doesn't have a cap and it is a true "Unlimited Data". Also, I consume approx. 50GB in average per month (50% of that is RUclips) so it was actually kinda neat. And also, Wi-Fi is f*cking expensive in my country and it was only in my home. I go outside a lot.
Public wifi can also be somewhat risky as you can connect to unsecured networks allowing your device to be vunerable. Consider using a VPN when using public wifi or not using the public wifi.
I don't think I've ever seen a data plan over 6 or 8GB. Usually it jumps to unlimited for $5/m more. Last month I used 6GB of data and roughly 50GB of WiFi. I'll still take the peace of mind for a few bucks more.
I had an unlimited plan and used: 50-60gb per month for £26 Now I got unlimited social media, music, movies and 90gb - I use 4gb and the speed of the unlimited stuff is horrendous after 1 week. But it's all for £15 😂
My wife and I have unlimited. We know we don't need it. We spend a lot of time consuming media at home, so it's not always needed. When I spent time riding the bus, it made more sense. We also know we have a soft cap of 75GB. Even on vacation we might use 20GB max. That said, we keep unlimited because we pay $59.01 taxes and fees included for 3 lines unlimited. We've been on US Mobile for 3 years. If you're gonna pay for unlimited data, then do it the smart way.
There's another wrinkle yet: data envelopes. Data isn't just sent over the internet by itself, it comes wrapped with metadata like how much data, what kind of data, etc. Each network protocol sends enveloped data using the next more generic protocol, until the data is finally sent by the Internet Protocol (IP). Envelopes in envelopes, like some amazon packages lol Then, there's the fact that large data gets chunked up, which means more envelopes need to be used. In all, it can be as much as a 10% increase in the amount of bytes sent "over the wire".
I don’t use social media that much just normal everyday stuff and 20gb is enough. I only pay around $25, not to mention I can use it as a hotspot and also use it when traveling abroad with no extra fees.
I work as a wireless retail rep and let me tell u this, if u bring your own phone, then what they show in the video is a great advice, but if you are financing a phone with your plan, you really have no choice but to opt for a higher plan as the companies force you by making it thr only available plan to finance a phone.
There’s just no reason to do a limited plan. Why waste any time keeping track of your usage? Limited plans made phone plans incredibly annoying as they’d often just go over and then you have to pay quite a bit more than if you just got unlimited
I completely disagree, I have a limited 5GB plan, and barely use 2GB a month. Literally because of what is stated on this video, I'm always connected to Wi-Fi. Also there are countless plans that don't charge you over the GBs they just slow your data down (like mine) and at least Android phones literally have a setting for you to set up data warnings. So there is literally no benefit unless you don't have home internet or travel a lot.
Did you not watch the video? If you only use 12GB per month, it's cheaper to get a limited plan that has a 15-20GB cap. Even if you do go over the limit once or twice per year, the extra charges will still be cheaper than what an unlimited plan would cost. Companies are taking advantage of customers not wanting to keep track of their usage.
Any phone has the capability to set a data cap either as a daily or monthly cap and will remind you when you get near it. I'm in the UK on a SIM only, no contract. I pay £10 a month for 30GB data, unlimited calls and texts and unlimited social media (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Pinterest, X). There is absolutely no way I need 30GB a month as I'll be lucky if I use 10GB at the most but it isn't any cheaper to get a lesser package as £10pm is the lowest that you can find.
I use pay-as-you-go for data. The upside is that any credit I put in carries over to subsequent months/years, and that I only pay for what I use. The downside is that the cost is comparatively extremely high per GB (~110 USD), so it's only good for low bandwidth stuff like text, small images, and high compression VOIP. Note that I'm in Canada, hence having to deal with absurd prices. In the USA it's easier to get decent cheap plans.
Lol, this doesn't apply for me. I live in the country, and I don't pay for cable or local Internet. Verizon finally moved my hotspot data to 100GB, and I could have cried tears of joy. I use data ALL the time. Definitely smart though to use thia advice in cities.
When you don’t have an unlimited plan, and go over by 150gb and get charged an extra $5.00 per gigabyte, that $10 extra per month becomes a pretty good deal for the unlimited plan.
Some companies do actually have data roll over. I also regularly use over 40gb on my phone as i don't particularly trust public WiFi, even while using vpns
I wanted a limit of 10GB for my phone, but since I rarely use data and they actually wanted to charge me more, ended up going with 100GB because it was cheaper for a little bit more I could have had "unlimited".
So couple things. For people who say WiFi is everywhere obviously hasn't lived in most of the US. WiFi is in fact, not every where or even mostly-where. I live in a fairly sized city and we have maybe 30% public places have it. Where I grew up? That's less than 5%. My mother also lives in the middle of no where which barely has cell service and no Internet options available even for an upfront cost. Secondly, there are many providers these days that offer rebates for service you don't use. Which is a valuable option for some. My recommendation is to get RUclips premium and Spotify premium that way you can just download everything.
Some companies are making the unlimited plan significantly cheaper. It's the new 3 year phone contracts, and payment plans with insurance payments the whole time of those 3 years that they're squeezing money out of you.
If you're curious about how much data you use, there is a setting in Android that lets you track mobile data usage under data usage. Apple I assume has the same. Free Wi-Fi is everywhere in the city, but it poses always poses security risk. Thus you may be safer using a mobile plan with a vpn. During and before the pandemic, I use a lot of data due to being very mobile. Post pandemic, I do not use much data due to working in an office and university. Just like other things insurance, it's good to check around for prices every few years.
For an average consumer, probably yes, but for me who uses around 200-300gb a month from streaming 24/7 at 1080p with ungodly amount of bitrate, with a centralized home server, while download gigabyte upon gigabytes of videos, yeah, 12gb wont even last half a day with my usage, let alone im living with my family.
I used up to 600GB per month. It was truly unlimited, average 4g speed 600Mb+, and it was faster than my wifi. It's illegal in my country to reduce speed on unlimited plans. .
For me 5 GB is enough cause I got secure Wifi at home and at university. I only pay 6 € a month for that. I still pay for 2 GB on my Laptop in case the university wifi is overloaded which it sometimes is or I have to use my Laptop during the commute which costs me 4 €. 10€ per month is still pretty cheap.
I bought for my phone outright so I can do a prepaid plan. 6.5 gbs a month for $25. I usually don't use more than 50% of that a month. I'm never really concerned about it, I just get on wifi ehen available and use things like "data saver" on RUclips for example. Service is just as good as my wife's who has unlimited. The only major issue I've ever had was using my phone internationally. There is simply no good option, not even temporarily paying extra. You're pretty much stuck trying to find wifi
.... I usually hit 35-40 GB of use a month, dispute trying to be on WiFi as much as possible because WiFi isn't available in most of the area I live, unless I'm at home all day. Which is pretty rare...
I have unlimited data but mostly for road trips since my ho lives in another city. I’m not allowed to be on my phone whatsoever at work so I don’t reach that “data cap”
For my job that has half my work connected to their special app to log in ,send emails ect. I use a minimum of 120GB a month and that's just for the work app only
I use pay as you go plan and I use maybe 1-3 GB a month. I work from home though and my outskde usage is pretty low because I only go out to socialize and not use my phone. I pretty much just use it to look for directions or look at restaurants or food pictures.
Damn how do you get a decent pay as you go plan that is still cheap if you use 1-3GB per month? Is it just a tiered system? (ex. 0-500mb 10$/mo, 500-1.5 GB 15$/mo, 1.5-5 GB 20$/mo.). Maybe list your provider? Granted, I live in Canada so our options are trash. The best true pay-as-you-go option I could find works out to 110 USD per gigabyte. Granted we do have 25 USD/mo plans for like 10-20 GB (if you do your research and look for a sub plan), but that's subscription, and it's hard to get any good plan that goes below 11 USD. Most Canadians pay a ton more, I think in the 60$/mo range.
Lol, I live in the Netherlands, I pay 25 euro for an unlimited plan and use around 80-100gb a month. But, then again, I never turn k wifi because of my plan
In the US, most unlimited plans cost around 65€/month. My son was using his French plan in the US that gave him 25GB/month of roaming for 20€ (plus unlimited in France), and I got him a limited US plan for 14€ so that he would have both a French and a US number. If you think mobile plans are expensive, home Internet is worse here. Most people are paying over $100/ month. I pay 52€/month for 60 Mb/s download & 6 Mb/s upload.
Nah, i listen to youtube videos throughout the day at work, and i dont have a VPN on my phone so im not tryna sign in to every sketchy public wifi that's nearby. My unlimited data plan gives me 100gigs before the cap, and it's like 10 bucks a month more than the next level down. That's worth it to me to have the freedom of literally never even THINKING about how much data ive used.
Yes, for the average, going prepaid is a very viable option to save up to $600.00 per year on your Cell Phone expenses. Even at a 15 GB to 35 GB Data Cap.
However it's not average use that matters but maximum use - since that's when data often matters most. Example: if you run out of data in a regular month the worst that can happen is that you can't stream youtube on the bus. If you run out of data on the other hand you're out of luck. (However you can also try to use less data or pay extra only that month etc - but still: average use is not as important as maximum use if your use fluctuates a lot)
You are not surrounded by WiFi unless you live in a city. When you get away from cities, WiFi becomes scarce.
Not to mention connecting to public wifi is a great way to have data intercepted or other unwanted shenanigans.
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They exist for a reason, some ppl really need it. Maybe they don't have WiFi at home or maybe they work driving... but realistically, if you have WiFi at home and your work/study place offers WiFi, you do not need unlimited. You probably would be fine with 30gb if you enjoy watching movies on the bus home.
And if you try to tell me how unsafe public hotspots are, I will tell you to put a tinfoil hat and a hazmat suit bc might as well protect from any danger ever
@TeclaTorta There are a few problems with public wifi, not least of which is the ease of sniffing your data and stealing info or log ins that way. Beyond that, many employers have a clause in their digital access policies that allows them to access anything you've accessed on their network or devices. I prefer heavily not to be subject to that if possible. Necessity is a factor though.
most people live in a city
Explain why my wife and daughters use 24 gb in a week?
FaceTime is the culprit
I’m doing about 110gb a month to 200gb
For my son it was RUclips. He usually used up my 40gb in two days. Even when I told him not to. I had to change the WiFi password and give him his own contract. So he could learn what it means to reach the limit.
You can adjust (downgrade) the resolution and suddenly you'll use a lot less data ;)
@@bettertoasterfor a family would be recommended an unlimited
@@bettertoasterHow?! That's extreme, I'm using RUclips on data right now and do so daily, and by the end of the month I've barely used 8GB
Free Wifi isn't free of risks.
Using your data isn't free of risks either. This is why you should have anti-virus software installed.
Only if you're a clueless moron who doesn't know how to secure your technology.
Pretty low risk almost everything is ssl nowadays
Get a VPN. Some phones or cell providers have provided this automatically.
like lets be real, if you're smart enough to know you should not use public wifi for sensitive stuff, you should be fine.
I just go with the cheapest option that is larger than my typical monthly usage (which is easy to track)
Well said 👏🏽
How do you track it?
@@the4tierbridgeyour carrier probably has an app that tells you how much data you use and how much of your plan is left
@@the4tierbridgeIf you log into your account for you cellular service, they’ll probably tell you how much you’re using that month
Broadband companies that cap data should be taken over by the government
You can see how much you use in a month in your device settings. If that number never changes much from 1 month to the next like mine, that's the plan you buy.
1. Don't ever use free wifi
2. The cap on unlimited data is decided by the company, not all have them, and the reduced speed might not even be noticable
3. They made this video based off of 1 study that was done 3 years ago
Free WiFi is safer than ppl make it out to be. As long as u don't:
Connect to *any* open WiFi.
Double check the name.
Don't use bank stuff.
You will survive to tell the tale 😂 chances are there's no hacker in that mcdonalds looking for your internet traffic any more than there's in that sketchy website u use weekly
@@TeclaTorta You can do bank stuff. Pretty much all bank and websites in general use TLS (the lock icon in the browser). That means it is encrypted.
Public wi-fi is fine (even online banking or such) as long as you ensure the website is secure. These days browsers will bring up confirmation if it isn't, or even just outright deny access to the site altogether.
Another alternative is to use a VPN. With a [n encrypted] VPN it won't even matter whether or not you encounter a rare/unlikely unsecured website.
Lastly, between how rare it's always been and how modern security has made these options less viable, random public wi-fi is 99.99% safe even if you're a complete idiot and don't don't check for secured website connection. People are far more likely to be victim to phishing attacks or malware or targetted social engineering attacks, which have nothing to do with the wi-fi.
@@user-or4rk3mc9p if the wifi is compromised in an attack like a rogue network or rogue captive portal it most definitely is not safe to use bank apps. TLS and encrypted tunnels are only as secure as both endpoints. This applies to VPNs as well.
@@user-or4rk3mc9p the problem is, most users are not going to be smart enough to be vigilant with a man in the middle attack such as redirecting to a phishing site with a bank login and certificate for a very similar looking website to the site you are trying to go to, or just straight up convincing the user to install it's CA certificate which will allow them to use THEIR encryption certificate to view all of your traffic in an encryption they can read before forwarding to the real site. It will show as a lock that it's encrypted, but doesn't mean it's encrypted to the site you are accessing.
Heck, some malicious wifi before was devious enough to capture automatic check for update traffic of commonly used applications, and spoof an "update available" for them to download, which would be malware.
Finally on top of that, there is always the possibility of unknown zero day exploits that your PC connecting to the network allows for the attacker to run against your computer.
All these are not always the most common, but yeah, there is a lot more than just unencrypted traffic being potentially sniffed.
I on average use 30 to 40 gigs a month. Unlimited is just the least expensive option for me. Wifi is only around everywhere in bigger cities. Even medium sized cities don't really have tons of wifi hotspots. Not to mention the ridiculous security risk public wifi presents.
Even though I use way more gigs than the average person in a month, it's because of this reason. The only time I have reason to ask for the WiFi of a restaurant or something is if I'll be there for a long time, plus most work places where I live won't give WiFi access to anything other than authorised devices (company laptops, computers, work phones, ect.) And as a result if you use a personal device, you don't really have the option to use WiFi networks.
@@catofjudgememt using business wifi is especially bad if you work there too because they will be paying attention
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I pay 70 a month and use 75gb but don’t have home internet. I’d say a combined phone and internet bill of 70 (about 1% of takehome pay) is a good deal.
Visible is 25/mo for unlimited.
That's a good deal, but some unlimited plans don't let you set up a hotspot.
@JohnPMiller Visible has unlimited hotspot last time I checked.
@@levnix1835 That's good! That's very good! Thanks.
@@user-or4rk3mc9p Sweet, I’m gonna look into visible
WiFi may be everywhere, but you should be aware of what you're getting into if you use it!
This is why I have a data plan that allows me to change my limits every month (and I can change in the middle of the month). After a while, you know how much data you actually use. When vacation rolls around, I change the plan to one that's $2 more expensive per month but gives me twice as much data, just for that month, and then I drop down to the lower limit again the next month.
Yeah the Average is 12 a month. I routinely hit the speed slowdown of 50 gigs monthly. I pay for unlimited to avoid slowing my PC at any point ever because my phone did something.
This video is so true. My service has always been Mint mobile, their price and flexibility is unlike any other in the market.
As a doordasher, i NEED as close to unlimited as possible
I just got unlimited, tracked my usage for a year and then switched to a 10 GB plan cause I only used 6 at most every month
Bad analogy, I’m not paying for more gas I’m paying to never run out of gas.
Why pay for the extra gas that you don't need? First, an unlimited plan is not really unlimited. Second, if you use 12GB on average, getting a 20GB plan will be more than enough.
@@Screwycummings it is unlimited, slow is still unlimited.
So as explaining in the first comment, I’m not paying for extra gas, I’m paying to NEVER run out.
@@RvB_Fan_since_8
whats the point to pay a premium to never run out of gas when you never use enough to worry about it anyway?
@@amirmirzaei3940 If you ever need to download anything you will most likely need unlimited. Or if you watch videos, or other things. I just use an MVNO (Mint, Visible, etc) and get cheap but "lower priority" service and it's never been an issue.
In France we got illimited (without any cap) data for 20€/month (~20$).
I once reached 120gb and everything was fine, still had high speed 4G.
Thanks to Xavier Niel and Free Mobile. You get plenty of roaming data when you're traveling. France is much better than the US for mobile phone plans and home Internet.
@@JohnPMiller Yes clearly, they "broke" the market with really aggressive prices and competitive plans. I have more data abroad than my local friends ! Completely mindblowing.
I pay for 15 GB and generally use 8-12 a month. I think 12 was when we were traveling out of state and I might play music or an audiobook on a 5-9 hour car ride (depending on where we were going).
I actually use at least 100GB a month because I don't have wifi everywhere lol. I only have wifi 2 days a week so the other 5 are entirely on the mobile data.
Thank God my ISP doesn't have a cap and it is a true "Unlimited Data". Also, I consume approx. 50GB in average per month (50% of that is RUclips) so it was actually kinda neat. And also, Wi-Fi is f*cking expensive in my country and it was only in my home. I go outside a lot.
If only I could get my wife to stop watching youtube videos and netflix while sitting in the carpool lane...
Most carriers don’t even have the option for a limited data plan anymore, it doesn’t really matter.
Public wifi can also be somewhat risky as you can connect to unsecured networks allowing your device to be vunerable. Consider using a VPN when using public wifi or not using the public wifi.
When I had unlimited data plan, I used one terabyte of data I just dealt with the slowness
I keep track, no wifi, 160 gigs a month, mostly youtube
I don't think I've ever seen a data plan over 6 or 8GB. Usually it jumps to unlimited for $5/m more.
Last month I used 6GB of data and roughly 50GB of WiFi. I'll still take the peace of mind for a few bucks more.
I had an unlimited plan and used: 50-60gb per month for £26
Now I got unlimited social media, music, movies and 90gb - I use 4gb and the speed of the unlimited stuff is horrendous after 1 week. But it's all for £15 😂
My wife and I have unlimited. We know we don't need it. We spend a lot of time consuming media at home, so it's not always needed. When I spent time riding the bus, it made more sense. We also know we have a soft cap of 75GB. Even on vacation we might use 20GB max. That said, we keep unlimited because we pay $59.01 taxes and fees included for 3 lines unlimited. We've been on US Mobile for 3 years. If you're gonna pay for unlimited data, then do it the smart way.
Not mentioning the fact to not connect just to any wifi it could steal data or reditect to bad websites
There's another wrinkle yet: data envelopes. Data isn't just sent over the internet by itself, it comes wrapped with metadata like how much data, what kind of data, etc. Each network protocol sends enveloped data using the next more generic protocol, until the data is finally sent by the Internet Protocol (IP). Envelopes in envelopes, like some amazon packages lol
Then, there's the fact that large data gets chunked up, which means more envelopes need to be used. In all, it can be as much as a 10% increase in the amount of bytes sent "over the wire".
At this point the internet is such a necessity it should be treated like water
I don’t use social media that much just normal everyday stuff and 20gb is enough. I only pay around $25, not to mention I can use it as a hotspot and also use it when traveling abroad with no extra fees.
I start with the lowest. If it isn't enough, I go up to the next until I reach my comfort level.
I work as a wireless retail rep and let me tell u this, if u bring your own phone, then what they show in the video is a great advice, but if you are financing a phone with your plan, you really have no choice but to opt for a higher plan as the companies force you by making it thr only available plan to finance a phone.
There’s just no reason to do a limited plan. Why waste any time keeping track of your usage? Limited plans made phone plans incredibly annoying as they’d often just go over and then you have to pay quite a bit more than if you just got unlimited
I completely disagree, I have a limited 5GB plan, and barely use 2GB a month. Literally because of what is stated on this video, I'm always connected to Wi-Fi. Also there are countless plans that don't charge you over the GBs they just slow your data down (like mine) and at least Android phones literally have a setting for you to set up data warnings.
So there is literally no benefit unless you don't have home internet or travel a lot.
Did you not watch the video? If you only use 12GB per month, it's cheaper to get a limited plan that has a 15-20GB cap. Even if you do go over the limit once or twice per year, the extra charges will still be cheaper than what an unlimited plan would cost. Companies are taking advantage of customers not wanting to keep track of their usage.
Any phone has the capability to set a data cap either as a daily or monthly cap and will remind you when you get near it.
I'm in the UK on a SIM only, no contract. I pay £10 a month for 30GB data, unlimited calls and texts and unlimited social media (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Pinterest, X).
There is absolutely no way I need 30GB a month as I'll be lucky if I use 10GB at the most but it isn't any cheaper to get a lesser package as £10pm is the lowest that you can find.
Lol you didn't even watch the video
they made my life much easier, that way I don't feel guilty about "not using enough" and can just put my phone down
I use pay-as-you-go for data. The upside is that any credit I put in carries over to subsequent months/years, and that I only pay for what I use. The downside is that the cost is comparatively extremely high per GB (~110 USD), so it's only good for low bandwidth stuff like text, small images, and high compression VOIP.
Note that I'm in Canada, hence having to deal with absurd prices. In the USA it's easier to get decent cheap plans.
Lol, this doesn't apply for me. I live in the country, and I don't pay for cable or local Internet. Verizon finally moved my hotspot data to 100GB, and I could have cried tears of joy. I use data ALL the time.
Definitely smart though to use thia advice in cities.
When you don’t have an unlimited plan, and go over by 150gb and get charged an extra $5.00 per gigabyte, that $10 extra per month becomes a pretty good deal for the unlimited plan.
Some companies do actually have data roll over. I also regularly use over 40gb on my phone as i don't particularly trust public WiFi, even while using vpns
I wanted a limit of 10GB for my phone, but since I rarely use data and they actually wanted to charge me more, ended up going with 100GB because it was cheaper for a little bit more I could have had "unlimited".
I definitely get my use out of the unlimited plan. I use between 100 to 500 GB a month. I'm way over the average of 12 GB.
So couple things. For people who say WiFi is everywhere obviously hasn't lived in most of the US. WiFi is in fact, not every where or even mostly-where. I live in a fairly sized city and we have maybe 30% public places have it. Where I grew up? That's less than 5%. My mother also lives in the middle of no where which barely has cell service and no Internet options available even for an upfront cost.
Secondly, there are many providers these days that offer rebates for service you don't use. Which is a valuable option for some. My recommendation is to get RUclips premium and Spotify premium that way you can just download everything.
Some companies are making the unlimited plan significantly cheaper. It's the new 3 year phone contracts, and payment plans with insurance payments the whole time of those 3 years that they're squeezing money out of you.
Use public Wifi?? You're safer wearing your SS# on your shirt than you are on public WiFi
Watching this as a Finnish: You got electricity cap also? If you use too much they cut your electricity off? 😭
If you're curious about how much data you use, there is a setting in Android that lets you track mobile data usage under data usage. Apple I assume has the same.
Free Wi-Fi is everywhere in the city, but it poses always poses security risk. Thus you may be safer using a mobile plan with a vpn.
During and before the pandemic, I use a lot of data due to being very mobile. Post pandemic, I do not use much data due to working in an office and university. Just like other things insurance, it's good to check around for prices every few years.
I hit my data cap each month.
For an average consumer, probably yes, but for me who uses around 200-300gb a month from streaming 24/7 at 1080p with ungodly amount of bitrate, with a centralized home server, while download gigabyte upon gigabytes of videos, yeah, 12gb wont even last half a day with my usage, let alone im living with my family.
I’m at 541GB this month and 250 of it is RUclips music while driving
I used up to 600GB per month. It was truly unlimited, average 4g speed 600Mb+, and it was faster than my wifi. It's illegal in my country to reduce speed on unlimited plans.
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Here I am with my unlimited plan looking at the 1TB of data that I have used in the last period. Yep sticking with unlimited.
(I use that to download stuff (cause it's way faster than my home wifi), and when I'm outside)
For me 5 GB is enough cause I got secure Wifi at home and at university. I only pay 6 € a month for that. I still pay for 2 GB on my Laptop in case the university wifi is overloaded which it sometimes is or I have to use my Laptop during the commute which costs me 4 €. 10€ per month is still pretty cheap.
Data is so expensive in my country that I don’t use it. If I don’t have wifi I don’t go on any app that is a heavy data user like RUclips.
unlimited plans have worked really well for me.
I pay 25 a month for unlimited data in the US so yeah its worth it
Even with wifi everywhere, i still use over 30gb of cell data, and with wifi im using well over 1tb of data
I use around 70 gb a month because I refuse to connect to unsecured network
I use my 50 gigs before the end of the month
They don’t offer limited plans anymore unless it’s prepaid
I’ve used 574GB of data so far this month. About 11 days into my month
what are you doing? downloading all your steam games or something?
@@amirmirzaei3940don’t know about him but I’m at 541 and 250 is from RUclips because I play music while driving
Companies don’t even offer limited data plans anymore. Everything is unlimited. Get with the times.
Not really. Version still have linited. It just not advertised, but if you dig you will find it. And plenty of tiny brands are limited.
yes they do lol
Switch to Mint Mobile!
I bought for my phone outright so I can do a prepaid plan. 6.5 gbs a month for $25. I usually don't use more than 50% of that a month. I'm never really concerned about it, I just get on wifi ehen available and use things like "data saver" on RUclips for example.
Service is just as good as my wife's who has unlimited. The only major issue I've ever had was using my phone internationally. There is simply no good option, not even temporarily paying extra. You're pretty much stuck trying to find wifi
Companies still absolutely offer limited plans. Mint Mobile is my provider and I am several rungs below their unlimited option with no issues.
.... I usually hit 35-40 GB of use a month, dispute trying to be on WiFi as much as possible because WiFi isn't available in most of the area I live, unless I'm at home all day. Which is pretty rare...
I have unlimited data but mostly for road trips since my ho lives in another city.
I’m not allowed to be on my phone whatsoever at work so I don’t reach that “data cap”
I have 10 gigs, and that slows down alot if I got over
I almost never use more than a couple gigs
It depends on the country. I pay only 4€ / month for unlimited internet & calls.
I hit the cap everytime after a few days of my unlimited plan monthly reset 😂
I use about 50GB with WiFi at home and at friends. And I am about to start doing cross country trucking so that number is gonna skyrocket.
For my job that has half my work connected to their special app to log in ,send emails ect. I use a minimum of 120GB a month and that's just for the work app only
I'm a big consumer of 30+ a month. No wifi in the car
Not me using over 1TB of Mobile data a month lol.
Yeah I'm the exception to this I use on average 40-60 gigs a month, most of it watching video's in 720p
I use pay as you go plan and I use maybe 1-3 GB a month. I work from home though and my outskde usage is pretty low because I only go out to socialize and not use my phone. I pretty much just use it to look for directions or look at restaurants or food pictures.
Damn how do you get a decent pay as you go plan that is still cheap if you use 1-3GB per month? Is it just a tiered system? (ex. 0-500mb 10$/mo, 500-1.5 GB 15$/mo, 1.5-5 GB 20$/mo.). Maybe list your provider?
Granted, I live in Canada so our options are trash. The best true pay-as-you-go option I could find works out to 110 USD per gigabyte. Granted we do have 25 USD/mo plans for like 10-20 GB (if you do your research and look for a sub plan), but that's subscription, and it's hard to get any good plan that goes below 11 USD. Most Canadians pay a ton more, I think in the 60$/mo range.
last time I used wifi was 10yrs ago. mobile data does it all
Lol, I live in the Netherlands, I pay 25 euro for an unlimited plan and use around 80-100gb a month. But, then again, I never turn k wifi because of my plan
In the US, most unlimited plans cost around 65€/month. My son was using his French plan in the US that gave him 25GB/month of roaming for 20€ (plus unlimited in France), and I got him a limited US plan for 14€ so that he would have both a French and a US number.
If you think mobile plans are expensive, home Internet is worse here. Most people are paying over $100/ month. I pay 52€/month for 60 Mb/s download & 6 Mb/s upload.
Nah, i listen to youtube videos throughout the day at work, and i dont have a VPN on my phone so im not tryna sign in to every sketchy public wifi that's nearby. My unlimited data plan gives me 100gigs before the cap, and it's like 10 bucks a month more than the next level down.
That's worth it to me to have the freedom of literally never even THINKING about how much data ive used.
50 gb and month isn't over yet. I used to use more when I was in college
I pay $25/month for "unlimited" and i use well over 50g. Visible for the win
2nd month in a row I've used 150+GB a week.
It's an essential in a tech savy household of 3 all streaming content and working online lmao
I’ve absolutely used over 20gb a month for several months
Yes, for the average, going prepaid is a very viable option to save up to $600.00 per year on your Cell Phone expenses. Even at a 15 GB to 35 GB Data Cap.
I use about 100 gb a month . I watched RUclips Netflix on my phone 1080p. Use my phone for work. I don't use wifi at all. They slow and not secure.
I passed my cap of 90 gb half way through the month lol. Farmer life.
I use upwards of 50-100GB every month on youtube. We dont have wifi, and i havent experienced slowdowns yet. Thank God. On MetroPCS.
i’ve somehow managed to use a terabyte of data in a month
However it's not average use that matters but maximum use - since that's when data often matters most. Example: if you run out of data in a regular month the worst that can happen is that you can't stream youtube on the bus. If you run out of data on the other hand you're out of luck.
(However you can also try to use less data or pay extra only that month etc - but still: average use is not as important as maximum use if your use fluctuates a lot)
Literally I have 20gb a month and I still have like 6-12 unused GB by the end of the month
Me with my 300+gb per month
"Do not underestimate me"
Google fi will charge only for what you use.
I use roughly around 400GB a month.
I use up my cap quite often
1. Version is actually unlimited I use 200 gb a month and a my house is 6 terabytes per month
My 541GB I’ve used this month says otherwise and I’m not on my phone 24/7
Tell me how someone would not be checking their data usage
Just checked
I have used 19.18 GB of cellular data for February - 16 days left.
How about you guys?
yeah i use around 300gb of data per day across 2 phones.
I use 120gb each month. Also I've had my phone hacked multiple times because of free WiFi so I don't trust it now
I’m currently at 744 gig on this period. So I’ll stick with unlimited
Here in India we have true unlimited 5g data and last month i used around 1 TB💀