Mobile versions of websites are designed to be less data heavy than their non-mobile counterparts. That takes care of the math, but what are the real-world implications? We like to think of them in terms of being small, medium, large and extra-large buckets of data.
If we say the average text-only email is 20 KB a piece, we can send and receive about 5, such emails and still stay within the MB Small bucket. Or, we can visit about 50 web pages in a given month, assuming an average of 2 MB per site yep — modern web pages have gotten quite a bit heftier.
We can stream around minutes of music or upload 50 high-quality photos. By the numbers, MB of mobile data allows for:. By using techniques like pre-downloading streaming media, apps, and large files over Wi-Fi, you can comfortably utilize your MB for emails, browsing, and social media.
Pop quiz…how many MB in a GB again? Doing so on our Flex plan will result in incredibly low bills. However, we know that some users simply need more. As a user with a flexible or set data plan, knowing what a megabyte of data is and how many MB in a GB will help prevent you from going over your allotted amount. Look into ways you can reduce background data use then teach your kids about data usage as well. Below is our definitive guide to mobile data allowance, in terms that are easy to understand.
These days, 1GB tends to be the bare minimum when it comes to data plans. As touched on above, the answer to this will very much depend on what you use your phone for.
Vodafone has a handy data calculator on its website, which will give you an estimated monthly data usage based on how many minutes you spend doing various things each day on your phone.
Spend an hour streaming the radio, for example, as well as 30 minutes social media browsing and 40 minutes browsing the internet and checking emails, and it recommends a 10GB allowance. Add in an hour of video streaming each day and that shoots up to 37GB.
View Deal. On Netflix for example, data use ranges from around 1GB of data every 6 hours for low quality to 3GB or more every 1 hour for high quality, and some services will use more. However, it is not suitable for those who stream lots of movies, or want to watch a lot of other videos. Or you could cut the music and stream a few movies on low or medium video quality. Use all your data on that and you could stream up to around 32 hours of content on medium quality — more than the length of a series boxset, though of course turning the quality up substantially cuts that figure down.
With that much monthly data you could on average stream around 4 hours of music, browse the web 2 hours and stream an episode of your favourite show every day, or potentially even a film. Even with video streamed in high quality you could manage around 30 hours a month depending on the source.
Realistically that means you can stream both audio and video for several hours each day, as well as browsing the web and using social networks exclusively on mobile data, and are still likely to have some going spare at the end of the month.
Need even more data? Then you'll want an unlimited data plan so you can browse without limits. We've created a helpful data calculator so you can find out exactly how much data you need. Simply use the sliders to select how much of each activity you undertake and your total monthly data use will be calculated automatically. Web browsing tends to be fairly light on your allowance, with each page you view averaging around 1MB of data.
That said, social media can use more, with Facebook for example often using around 2MB per minute. That said, different social media services will use different amounts of data. But again, consider how much you actually do this. And an hour each day is quite a long time. Streaming video, such as using YouTube and Netflix, will depend on the service and the video quality.
And some streaming services likely use a lot more data than Netflix. So if you plan to stream a lot of video over mobile data you will want a high data limit, of probably at least around 15GB per month.
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