I listen to a LOT of podcasts (110 days of them since November 2015). I think it's safe to say that most of them aren't optimized for streaming in the way that, say, most streaming music is. So if I want to listen to something that I didn't pre-download then I'm looking at some fairly hefty downloads. It averages to about 1 meg / minute with most of the shows I listen to being 30+ minutes each. No on-the-fly bandwidth saving measures. I'm out walking for an average of 2.5 hours a day, so if I downloaded all of that on my phone connection I'd be using 150 meg / day. Then there's youtube, which if you don't pay them $16/month doesn't let you download videos or stream audio only. So that ends up eating a bunch.
Back when I was on Fi I used ~2-3 gig/month. Switched to an unlimited plan on Tmobile (with throttling at 50g) and now I'm using 6-9 because I don't have to worry about it.
Fi was the second hardest service from Google to give up though, because their service is just better than competitors. Only Tmobile can remotely compare. But their customer service is... Google. I might have even stayed, but I switched to iPhone and Fi only gives half baked token support for iPhone.
That makes sense. I listen to lots of podcasts as well, and I've gotten stuck once or twice with something still downloading and waiting to walk out the door.
Back when I was on Fi I used ~2-3 gig/month. Switched to an unlimited plan on Tmobile (with throttling at 50g) and now I'm using 6-9 because I don't have to worry about it.
Fi was the second hardest service from Google to give up though, because their service is just better than competitors. Only Tmobile can remotely compare. But their customer service is... Google. I might have even stayed, but I switched to iPhone and Fi only gives half baked token support for iPhone.