On Feb 18, 2012, at 1:20 PM, whiterabbit32@gmail.com wrote:
> So people weren't monitoring their data/minutes usage themselves? It's nice to have the cell provider monitor the usage for that but I also monitor it. Always have.
Alice, what do you use to monitor it?
I have not found an easy way to track data usage from the iPhone. I use PhoneView to keep a call log on the iPhone, but it does not give any data usage information.
If I go to Settings > General > Usage > Cellular Usage, I am told that I have used:
Call Time, current period 6 days, 1 hour, & lifetime 6 days, 1 hour
Cellular Network Data, sent 455MB, received 3.5 GB
Last Reset: Never
I know that is wrong. It is a 3GS that I bought July 2009. I know I have had many months that I have used 1-2 GB of data. I have done only one Restore of the Phone, after I installed iOS 5.0.1 in October 2011, because of a syncing problems. That might explain the 3.5 GB of data, but I hardly use the phone mode, so 6 days is more like the total usage from July 2009 on. From October 2011, it should be less than 400 minutes or 6 hours 40 minutes, NOT 6 days. I have averaged just over 100 minutes/ month for the last 10 years, and recently under 100 minutes/ month.
I'm with AT&T and never use all my calling minutes so I don't know if they give a warning text for calling minutes, but how would they give a warning for data usage if the target is moving for "unlimited" data.
Right now, I monitor my usage from my phone bill. And of all the utilities I have paid, the phone companies are the only ones that are consistently in error. The telco's are the only ones I have caught charging me, family and friends for calls we did not make, and I am talking going back pre- Ma Bell break up. So why should we trust them on data usage?
The last time, I had to threaten Verizon that I would press fraud charges with the FCC if they did not credit back 900 pay as you go minutes. I had bought a phone and calling minutes for a friend I hired as an employee. They were adding calls to his account for calls made from the East Coast, 20 minutes after he made a call on the West Coast, to me. That is an awfully fast flight cross country. I should have filed the charges anyway.
The electric company, occasionally used to guestimate a bill, when they could not make a reading, but it would be corrected when they read the meter the next month.
I wish there was an app that would track the cellular data usage and the WiFi data usage separately.
But the thread is about declaring war on unlimited data users, and 2GB is definitely not the largest users, if they include the tiered users in to the total. AT&T is playing games to get the "unlimited" users to give up the plan that AT&T grandfathered.
Brent
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