How much data is "enough"?

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I'll use wifi when im at home and i wont be using my phone really heavily during the day. Some web browsing and e-mail, bit of youtube etc. no torrenting or downloading since I can wait and do that at home. No streaming music either.

Would 750MB/month be enough, do you reckon?

How much do you guys use? and how would you describe your usage?
 
How often are you not on WiFi and using the phone for anything data intensive?

I wouldn't get close to my old 1GB limit when on the WiFi at work & home and only pulling down web content whilst on the move.
 
I average between 500MB to 750MB, always under my 1GB limit.

Have wifi at work and home, pushing 2 emails inc junk mail box, occasional youtube when bored, weather and BBC app updating every 30mins.
 
I have 500 MB per month, and get close to the limit on some months, and on others hit it nearly a week before the end of the month. However, it just slows down rather than charge me and can always top it up.

Not really bothered as I pay under £20 a month and it's more than enough, and have wifi most places. I have enough data for a bit of casual browsing, facebook updating, emails etc...
 
Unlimited is enough.

I might not ever get close to 1GB, but I'd not want the doubt hanging over my head if I had a particularly heavy month's usage.
 
i've got a gig limit, but everywhere here has wifi so hardly use more than 250mb all in all.

if you don't have access to wifi often, then a gig should be enough unless you stream stuff whilst on the move, then you'll probably want more
 
I use wifi when at home, and have 1gb of data for when I'm on the move.

Am 15 days into my monthly allowance, and have used 334/1024mb. That's all my facebooking, a lot of emailling, a few apps downloads from play store.

It's entirely dependent on the individual, but for what I consider 'regular' use by myself, it's seems sufficient.
 
Unlimited is enough, probably settle for 10GB min. Easily several Gb a month, sometimes few GB a day.
Very heavy user. With many many hours away from wifi using netflix and other video streaming services.
 
Unlimited, how it should be. I dont object to serious abusers being penalised though . I might never get close to any sort of limit but its good to not have to worry about running out of data/credit which would make me limit the use of my smartphone; hindering the experience of having such a capable device. Also paying any extra costs on top of your allowance is something id rather not have to deal with either.

They need to progress and get the new networks up and running.
 
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I've had unlimited but always use most data on wifi anyway. Recently started using Play Music which uses quite a bit (high quality streaming) but still nowhere near even 1GB a month...
 
I've had 750MB for the past 2 years and never used more than 500MB at a time with normal browsing on the phone.

I have been using it to tether my work laptop so I can access Facebook during lunch, and playing a flash game, then my limit was hit in a few days, doh!
 
I'm with 3. I've got all you can eat data. I go through roughly 8-10gb a month.

That's because I watch quite a few games on my iPhone 5 via skygo. Watch a lot of YouTube clips aswel.
I never connect to wifi as I don't see the point.

So it depends what you use your phone for.
 
Enough is never enough;):p

On my S3 line i have 500mb which i hardly use as most of the time im on my wifi at home or work. On my main line, i have unlimited data which is truly unlimited according to what Tmo said to me when i went on their rolling 12mth sim plan for £21 a month, includes unlimited texts and calls along with unlimited internet. So far ive used about 3gb of it and still havent been slowed down or got any warning messages..yet.
 
I need unlimited. 30GB would probably cover normal (I've used 14.25GB in the 16 days of this month's allowance) phone usage I guess, but once my other One Plan SIM runs out I imagine I'll be tethering sometimes as well since my phone is 3 times the speed of my ADSL.
 
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