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I rarely go over 2 GB a month. What are you doing to use so much? Or are you on a group plan?

Google Maps everyday and streaming music and sometimes video. That's enough to cross 2GB trivially unless you are on something like T-Mobile that does not consider major audio-video streaming sites against their data cap.

Do you opportunistically use Wi-Fi? Or just LTE all the time?

I have WiFi on when I am at home or work. When I am outdoors I often force it off because it ends up connecting to weak signals that are not actually useful and basically causes the phone to not 'see' any internet.

I hate this. there should be a feature that ignores weak signals beyond the whitelisted ones. whenever I turn off the wifi to ignore the weak signal, I wind up forgetting to turn it back on, racking up gigs of data in the process.

This has happened more times than I care to keep count. Everything considered crossing 2GB in a month is extremely normal for me

If you're using Google Maps every day, you offline your area within the app. Drastically reduces data usage.

Shouldn't Google Maps be caching this data?

Offline maps allows you to save all of the streets in a large radius, the size of a medium-size city. You can also save an area in advance, such as if you're going to an area on a trip.

Caching just saves the streets you get routed on, after the face.

> unless you are on something like T-Mobile that does not consider major audio-video streaming sites against their data cap

Isn't it odd that people don't raise their placards against this example of network non-neutrality?

Isn't it odd that people don't raise their placards against this example of network non-neutrality?

Isn't this the main complaint about network non-neutrality? That ISPs get to pick winners and losers in the streaming space based on the deals they make with the big players.

The reason that breaking net neutrality is a problem is that it allows the carriers to pick winners and losers based on special deals and makes it harder for new entrants. T-mobile doesn't require payment from the video/audio providers and doesn't discriminate. You just have to follow their documented guidelines, have legal content, and sign up with them.

They even have one porn site at least (evidence they aren't discriminating based on content). But they don't advertise it.

In other words, they may be breaking the letter of the concept of Net Neutrality but not the spirit.

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