Do you know your Megabyte from your Gigabyte?
Do you know exactly what your data bolt on is actually worth?
The table below gives rough estimates as to what a user can get from 500MB or 1GB of data (using average sizes for each item).
Note: the allowance covers one item only – so either 5000 basic webpages OR 1500 rich webpages NOT both. Please also remember that this is a guide as all sites/videos/emails are different.
|
500MB corresponds to… |
1GB corresponds to… |
|
| Basic webpages (mainly text) |
5,000 |
10,000 |
| Rich webpages (with multimedia, e.g. BBC) |
1,500 |
3,000 |
| Basic e-mails |
500,000 |
1,000,000 |
| Rich e-mails (with attachments) |
1,000 |
2,000 |
| Downloading/streaming music |
100 songs |
200 songs |
| Downloading/streaming video |
1 hour |
2 hour |
| Listening to online radio(assumes 128kbps bit rate) |
8 hours |
16 hours |
|
ACTIVITY |
DATA USAGE |
| 1 email (text only) |
10KB |
| 1 email (photo attachment) |
356KB |
| 1 email (attachment) |
88KB |
| Typical web page look up * |
400KB |
| 1 hour online gaming |
32MB |
| 1 hour audio streaming |
60MB |
| 1 minute music |
256KB |
| 1 typical app/game/song |
4MB |
| 1 social media post with photo |
157KB |
| 1 minute streaming video |
2MB |
| 1 digital photo upload (low res) |
5MB |
| 1 digital photo upload (high res) |
10MB |
| 1 hour low-res video streaming |
46MB |
| 1 hour high-res video streaming |
356MB |
| 1 typical 5min video on iTunes |
30MB |
| 1 typical 45min TV show from iTunes |
200MB |
| 1 hour Skype phone call |
56MB |
| 1 hour Skype video chat |
169MB |
*Can exceed 2MB with graphically intense pages.
These are just estimates and data transfer amounts will vary based on application. Downloads that buffer, such as streaming music and videos will bill for all of the data that has been downloaded, even though you may not have listened to or watched the entire download. Please regularly check and manage your usage.
1MB=1024KB 1GB=1024MB
BE WARNED: Out of bundle usage can be charged @ £2 per MB
