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the_mitsuhiko on Feb 11, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like t...

But nobody uses 60GB of data on data only. When you're at home you're typically connected to Wifi. Also in many ways that's besides the point. Usage on mobile devices is skyrocketing and in particular young users are the reason for it. At this point high data usage per month is not exactly an exception but the norm.

FireBeyond on Feb 11, 2016 | [–]

Maybe I should have read more closely, my assumption was that that referred to cellular data.

But in principle, I absolutely agree with you. Caps, etc? Should go away, yesterday.

Spooky23 on Feb 11, 2016 | [–]

I have an associate who travels and eschews wifi. He used like 75GB/month.

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