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Looking at the data usage trends on my AT&T online account, it seems like the most bandwidth I've used in a month is a little over 300MB. Granted, I don't have an iPhone (and I would probably consume more bandwidth if I had an iPhone or Android phone), but it seems like the 2GB is fairly reasonable.

Could anyone with an iPhone share their data usage statistics? I'm curious to see your usage.

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I'm in France with SFR where the iPhone plans give you 1GB of 3G data, after which the connection is capped to GPRS speeds. I use my iPhone constantly (including listening to online radio for at least a few hours/week), and the most I've used so far in a single month is 934MB. I suspect that this move will mostly affect those who are using unofficial tethering and/or those who stream a lot of video from home.

I still think it's a pretty bad move on AT&T's fault, and is probably an indication that they have secured exclusivity in the US for at least another year.

* 1st gen iPhone (7/10/07 to 7/11/08; 367 days) - 981 MB (2.67 MB/day)

* iPhone 3G (7/11/08 to 6/23/09; 347 days) - 1.9 GB (5.48 MB/day)

* iPhone 3GS (6/23/09 to present; 343 days) - 2.8 GB (8.16 MB/day)

For reference, 200 MB/month is ~6.5 MB/day and 2 GB/month is ~65 MB/day.

I have an iPhone and was surprised by the amount of data I use a month. Usage info for my account is not available prior to November 2009, but for the 7 months since, I've averaged 560 MB a month. Since the start of baseball season in April, I've streamed quite a bit of audio using MLB At-Bat. April saw the most data usage with 663 MB. I thought it would be much higher.

I'm disappointed with the 2 GB cap, but now that's I've seen my actual usage it seems more reasonable. My wife and I could save $10 a month and still stay comfortably under the cap.

I use about 500MB/month, and this didn't change much when I switched from an iPhone to a Nexus One. This is usage from two email accounts, a lot of web surfing, and maybe an hour or two of streaming music via rhapsody or pandora. This past month however I did enable tethering on my N1 and ended up using closer to about 1.2GB on my last bill.

I can see one benefit to the new price structure. My wife, who just uses her iPhone to look at maps and mail, only does maybe 100MB/month. If not for that she might want to switch to the iPhone 4G and who knows how data intensive it might be (may be worth it to stay grandfathered), we could save $15/month on by cutting back to the $15/200MB plan for her line. Even if she goes over that by 200MB we still would pay less than with the current data package.

Since acquiring my 3GS I've sent 345MB and received 2.7GB of data over the 3G network. That works out to around 280MB/month, considering I've had the phone for a bit over 11 months.

I'm at 1.1GB sent, 5.6GB received since I got it around the same time. I attribute much of this to emailing photos to my flickr and tumblr accounts, as well as attaching images to tweets with twitpic

I've used 2.9GB since August 2008. Half of that in the last 6 months, not sure why the spike there. My average for the last six months has been 250MB per month with a high of 383 (January, was moving and had no other internet service) and a low of 55 (April, surprised by that one). I expected my low would be March, worked in an office that month that completely banned the use of cell phones, anything with a wireless signal actually.

MBytes/month from November 2009 through May 2010: 835 887 786 589 558 528 420

I attribute the falloff in May to my adoption of Opera Mini over Safari.

Just checked. I apparently use 500MB/month, on average.

I use about 100 to 150 megs a month on my iPhone. My wife uses half that. This is going to save us $30 a month, so I'm happy about it.

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