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My girlfriend used 3GB of mobile data a month or two ago. She listens to a lot of Pandora.

Your experiences are not able to be extrapolated to another chunk of the population.

I said it was hard because I was thrashing it. In one of those months, I left Windows Update running while my phone was tethered. During the summer, I was using Spotify every day, on the walk to work and on the walk home again. Even under such heavy usage I didn't get close, I think a very small percentage of people use more than half a gig (which begs the question, why bother limiting it in the first place if most people don't touch it?)

The limit justifications are fairly simple, you've already listed a dozen things you don't do that you know would take you over the limit.

In the presence of no limit, you, and most people, would do those things. It would use radically more bandwidth.

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