Online music services are also the cause of consuming 3G.
If listening to music online at higher quality (320 kbps) will cost about 144 MB / hour, equivalent to 4.32 GB monthly, this is a " pretty " number. In order for readers to better understand, we have a spreadsheet when listening to music online in Spotify service as follows:
Thus, in order to reduce the amount of online music listening to 3G data, users only have two options: Listen only when using Wi-Fi or be forced to listen at low quality to save 3G capacity.
Besides listening to music online, watching movies online is also a form of 3G data consumption very much. For YouTube, this app often automatically adjusts video quality according to network speed, however, users can actively adjust by pressing on the 3-dot mark in the right corner of the video.
Choose Quality and adjust the video resolution to a more reasonable level if you are using a 3G network.
Below is the average statistics table for each video resolution:
All mobile devices running iOS, Android and Windows Phone are available to check applications that use network traffic, from which users can review and know which applications consume the most network data. .
On devices running iOS, users can go to Settings> Cellular and scroll down to see the list of applications in use.
For devices running Android operating system, users go to Settings> Data usage and scroll down to see statistics of applications using 3G data that are ranked from high to low. Besides, current Nexus and HTC devices also allow users to set 3G usage limit every month and when approaching the phone limit, they will notify users to find ways to limit use or transfer to Use Wi-Fi.
For devices running Windows Phone, users can access Data Sense, swipe right to access the Usage section. Here, users will see the list of applications using 3G traffic as well as setting the same limit as on Android.