Re: OT Do high-functioning flip phones need data plan?

Chris wrote on Wed, 3 Jul 2024 22:36:14 -0000 (UTC) :

How much internet do they do?

 
How much internet do they do? 

 
Internet isn't a quantity. Rephrase please.

Chris is correct in his response to micky, where I'll provide a bit of
information for cellular data - after agreeing with Chris that Wi-Fi data
amounts aren't usually a limiting factor with a phone (as Wi-Fi data limits
are subject to the Wi-Fi ISP's limits - which has nothing to do with the
phone - and where Wi-Fi calling can be done on a phone over Wi-Fi also).

Even as my kids are married and have moved out, they are still on my family
plan, where they tend to use up about five to ten gigabytes per month of
the unlimited data T-Mobile gave most of us for free years ago, while my
wife and I barely scratch out enough cellular data to get out of the
kilobyte ranges into the megabytes per month.

This trend of the kids using vastly more data than their elders extends to
their use of the 5GB/month hotspot/tethering (which are different things,
but T-Mobile considers them under the same monthly limits), where one kid
maxes out at 5GB while the other hovers around 3 or 4GB per month - and
while my wife and I are in the low kilobyte ranges, if that (depending on
the number of service outages affecting our local community WISP).

Hope this personal information I've kindly shared helps micky and others
learn more about how others use data on their phones, as I'm all about
helping others learn more from everyone else's experiences.