AT&Ts new scam

I imagine that something changed for you (like getting new phones that probably have different OS versions on them than the old phones).

I had 2 iPhones on unlimited data plans and the average monthly data use for the 2 phones was about 6.5GB and when I looked at the max for either line and added those together (even though they were on different months) it was still only 9GB. I switched to the 10GB Mobile Share plan (keeping my old phones) and my average monthly data usage comes to about 6.6GB. My highest single month has been just over 7GB. You see that by switching the account only, I had no change in my data usage levels. Now, when we get new phones, I expect that we will have a temporary jump in data usage while we get used to the new phones and get them all setup the way we want them. Also, we have noticed that over the years, with each new iPhone we get, we tend to use a little more data than we did with our previous phones. I don't think that this is AT&T's fault, I think that we just like new features available to us and use them more. I don;t know about you, but when I get a new device, I can't stop myself from "playing with it" for the first few months, just to learn all the new things it can do, and can't do. Of course, that always drains the battery faster, and causes it to use more data than before...

Since you mention NEXT programs, I can only assume that you purchased new phones, so I strongly suggest that "nothing changed" is not really that accurate. I bet that quite a bit has changed in the phones you use, and that would be the probable reason for the sudden increase in data usage. Especially since the newer smartphones often come pre-configured to use your cellular data for many things, and they also download many things "in the background" so that it seems faster to you when you want to display them. This "predictive logic" often downloads things you never see, so you may use a good chunk of cellular data for things you never see while the predictive logic is learning what you want to see. You have to turn many of these features off on newer smartphones to prevent them from wasting your bandwidth, but then once you do, your shiny new device won't seem as fast as the manufacturer made you think it was by all the games they played with trying to predict what you would want to see and downloading it before you request it to be displayed...

My phone was the only one of 4 that changed. I went from a galaxy s4 to the galaxy s5 and my data is still the lowest in the group. There has been no change to the other 3 phones and the data usage jumped dramatically as soon as I switched my plans. 


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