Can you live ONLY with your cell phone DATA plan?

[bembol]

Times are tight these days and just thinking if you are forced to cancel your Home Internet, is you cell phone data plan enough to get you by for the month?

In Canada, it took a very long time for the Big Three (Bell, Rogers & Telus) to offer (un)limited data plans. I only got to try it for a few weeks until I switched & cancelled my account with Rogers. it was doable but no doubt it's limited to browsing and light YouTube usage. I'm not sure how it is in the U.S.

I personally can live with my data, though it helps I have three accounts (business, personal and tablet plan) that gives me 30GB a month. Honestly, lately I've been streaming Amazon Prime, Crave, YouTube, etc. because of the pandemic, otherwise, I tend to download my purchases. I have a 256GB microSD along with the internal storage filled with Movies, TV Shows and Music.

 

[Laura Knotek]

No. I'd be throttled too much to watch Netflix, YouTube TV, and YouTube.

 

[me just saying]

nope, I would be throttled within a few days because of security cams and streaming. I am a cord cutter and tend to binge watch shows.

 

[Kizzy Catwoman]

No cos I have a lot of smart home accessories and they wouldn't work if I weren't at home for everyone else in the house.

 

[L0n3N1nja]

I broke 450Gb of data this month on my home internet and I live alone.

 

[me just saying]

No cos I have a lot of smart home accessories and they wouldn't work if I weren't at home for everyone else in the house.

I am amazed as to how much those smart home accessories and devices add to your data usage. sometimes I wonder why they need so much but try not to think about it since it would cause parnoidia.

 

[bkdodger2]

Best to cut the latte at Starbucks

 

[Mike Dee]

These days I think I should get off unlimited data because I'm home using WiFi most of the time.

 

[Morty2264]

Great thread topic! At first I was thinking "yes," but now it's a huge "no." I have an unlimited* data plan with Rogers (*10 GB of 4G but after that it's down to 3G) but with the Netflixing, YouTube, music, watching online TV, etc, I'd be hitting 3G real fast. So, I guess it's a "sort of" response from me. Not that 3G is so terrible, but it would be very easy for 10 GB to be eaten up.

 

[tube517]

No. I'd be throttled too much to watch Netflix, YouTube TV, and YouTube.

Same

 

[anon(50597)]

Of course any of us could, unless you run a business out of your house. It's whether we choose to.

I could easily.

 

[me just saying]

just went to my ritter cable account and saw that I already used 274.1 gig and still have 14 days in the billing period. no way will at$t let me get away with that type of usage

 

[bkdodger2]

I'm working from home so need the faster internet and WiFi from FiOS ... Along with I'm in lower area of house so cell signal is spotty at times.,

 

[kbz1960]

I could most of the time but other months, no.

 

[Ry]

I work from home full-time. No.

 

[bembol]

I forgot about Smart Home systems. That aside, can you?

Let's pretend that it has a separate connection. LOL
Otherwise, this thread is useless.



Budget is not a problem but I was just wondering if it's doable.

 

[mustang7757]

Good question, im not sure , I have unlimited data with my carrier but I only use like 15gb a month compared my wifi like 60gb a month .

 

[ptkelly]

No. There's no way I'd want to read the news on my cell phone. There's no way I want to get rid of my Google Home Minis. I also don't want to use my cellphone as link to the internet for my laptop or my desktop.

My cell service gives me unlimited calls/messages throughout North America. For the geographically challenged that's the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. My data is 3GB. That costs me about $8.70 a month. My internet connection through Telmex, the phone company, is unlimited, of course, and costs $17 a month. If I absolutely had to cut back I'd skip lunch once a week and pay for both the cell service and the internet connection.

 

[Casualballer]

I forgot about Smart Home systems. That aside, can you?

Let's pretend that it has a separate connection. LOL
Otherwise, this thread is useless.



Budget is not a problem but I was just wondering if it's doable.

When I was in college, I did everything through my phone. Usually hit around 50 GB a month and then t-mobile sometimes will slow you down afterwards. I did YouTube, some sports streaming, tons of music and podcast streaming, Hotspot, and usually waited to download shows while on wifi. It was fine. Some months I would have a bit of stress about getting to 50 but more often then not I wouldn't get slowed down. (with t-mobile you just get depriortized and not switched to 3g)

 

[cardboard60]

I live in the country...
Got trees all around me.

My plan is unlimited talk, text and data.
Need wifi calling to use my phone a lot.